On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:26:02AM +0100 or thereabouts, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have mutt 1.0-i happily running on a RH6.2 box,
> but haven't figured yet how to do what follows.
>
> When ones subscribes to a mailing list, he or she
> is only interested in a (small) part of the threads
> discussed. For example, I am subscribed to mutt-users
> and have (currently) no IMAP.
> What I would like to do is:
>
> 1) Whenever I see the first message of an uninteresting
> thread, I tell mutt that I'm not interested in it.
>
> 2) mutt writes this to some log file
It occurs to me that you could use some kind of send or save hook to run a
script which greps the from line into a log file. Perhaps something like
forward to bitbucket@localhost and use a send hook on that address
>
> 3) Next time I dial up, a script reads this log file,
> connects to the pop server and deletes everything which
> is FROM the mailing list AND with that header.
>
> 4) only at this point fetchmail starts and downloads
> only what might be interesting
>
> 5) the log file is cleaned every few days.
>
>
> I know how to do points 3,4,5, but how do I tell mutt to
> create this log file? Has somebody already done this?
Post the rest would you?
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