On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:20:23AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Nick Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 12 Jan 2000:
> > I've read the online documentation at www.mutt.org and I cant find specific
> > information on how to get new mail put in folders based on patterns.
>
> Mutt doesn't do this, it's not Mutt's job. You need to use a mail
> filtering tool such as procmail or maildrop.
>
> This is getting to, or is already a FAQ. Hmm. Anyone volunteer to
> write an entry about this for the FAQ list? :-)
Argh! I despise procmail, yes its powerfull, and can do alot, but
it's severly anoying. I think it _IS_ a mail clients job to do filtering,
after all, it checks the /var/spool/mail/<username> for new mail and drops
in in your inbox, if it drops it in the inbox, why not instead drop it in
some other box and let you know?
Thats why I started writing my own mail client, so the filtering
would be easy to use, and built into the client, so you dont have to hassle
with procmail. Since I started using Mutt, I stopped developing this mail
client, but now I might start again, or maybe add this feature to mutt, is
there a reason why this is something that is continuously not a feature in
UNIX mail clients? yes procmail is powerfull, but its far too much of a
hassle for just setting up a simple filter, something in the muttrc like
this:
newmail-hook ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +mutt-users-mail
would be simple enough and very easy to impliment. It could just search the
headers for that pattern, not even the body (since that would slow it down
more). Sure its not as powerfull as procmail can get, but its certainly
better for simple filtering wich is what most people need to do anyways.
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- Nick Jennings
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web : http://nick.namodn.com
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