Hi Telsa,
thanks for your reply.
In fact I already make heavy use of procmail just to filter and archive
incoming emails.
The point what I wanted here: There is one source of emails where
sometimes important mails arrive othertimes they are just silly, but in
fact I want to keep them all and I want to keep them within a single
mailfolder. But obviously, I have to treat the mails as you suggested or
keep in pace with the sometimes boringly marking them read.
Thanks very much for your reply.
Kind regards,
Lukas
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:46:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > is there a possibility to specify within Mutt a function, that filters
> > the incoming emails and marks them as read if the pattern matches ?
> >
> > The problem: I receive lots of email -- some of them are important,
> > others not. In fact, I want to keep all of them but I would like to be
> > informed by mutt only if some of them arrived.
>
> I'd mostly do this outside mutt.
>
> If I understand what you're saying, then the solution I'd use, since
> I use lots of mailboxes for lots of lists and its not much of a tweak,
> would be to have procmail sending the ones I want to know about to one
> mailbox, and the ones I don't want to know about immediately to another,
> and then having the 'mailboxes' line of my muttrc only know about the
> important folder.
>
> I do this on a limited basis already: I don't have my ~/Mail/sent file
> in my mailboxes line, for example, as I can usually guess when something
> arrives in that :)
>
> I assume you have mutt open all the time, since it's mutt you want
> to notify you. Other alternatives would be to get procmail to beep
> and say "new important mail" or something, or to do what I also do:
> have your shell looking in a variety of places for email and giving
> you "you have new mail in <whereever>" if it's an important place.
> Only problem with that solution is that I have lots of windows open
> in X, and I get the 'you have new list-mail' or 'you have new personal
> mail' message in each shell. I'm sure there's a way around that,
> but I have never cared enough to find it. (The variable in bash is
> MAILPATH; I believe someone posted the equivalents for other shells
> recently.)
>
> Telsa
