On 2000-01-12 16:08:06 -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > 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. can
>
> Mutt doesn't do this. Setup something like procmail.
Actually I think you can use folder-hook to implement a poor-man's
procmail. Personally, I use procmail :)
There seems to be a lot of detractors to the requested functionality,
however there's at least one valid case that mutt can be in where the
functionality is quite useful. This is when the spoolfile is an IMAP
INBOX folder. That folder could get mail from a variety of places, and
it makes sense for mutt to be able to filter that mail into subfolders
(hell, Netscape mail among others can do it).
Try running procmail on a mail server you don't have an account on and
your mailbox isn't actually physically owned by you anyway :)
Cheers,
--
Matt
