Matthew Hawkins [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> 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 :)
This would work, but only to sort when you first entered a folder. It
wouldn't do anything with newly arrived mail.
> 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
I understand procmail doesn't go with IMAP at this point. But that doesn't
mean it makes sense for Mutt to do it. It's still the MDAs job to deliver
mail. As someone else mentioned, something should be written for IMAP to
fill this hole. It shouldn't be added to the MUAs.
> (hell, Netscape mail among others can do it).
This really isn't a reason to do anything. :)
> 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 :)
If I was stuck like this I'd be pulling mail to another machine I had more
control over. It's not that hard to find a friend with an always-on box
that'll give you a shell, if you can't do it yourself.
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