On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:21:24PM +0100, giorgian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | i haven't found anything in the man pages about mail filters; | initially i decided to try procmail, but it is decisely too much | insane for me: i'm a member of at least 15 MLs (plus this one :) ), | and my .procmailrc is an awful mess, so i gave up. | | now, is there a way to tell mutt to put received messages in folders | according to some matching rules?
Mutt doesn't do this. But procmail need not be a pain. I use this: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cats2procmailrc/ to generate a procmail file from a list of simple rules. For example, my rules for mutt say: attn Mutt-Announce [EMAIL PROTECTED] mutt Mutt-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] mutt Mutt-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]@korn.aiss.de mutt Mutt-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] mutt Mutt-Users sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mutt Yahoo-Mutt-Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which puts the announcements in my "attn" folder and all the others in my "mutt" folder. Use is thus: cats2procmailrc < categories > $HOME/.procmailrc where "categories" is the file with lines like the above. Makes it all very easy. Think of the categories as a high level thing and the procmailrc as the machine code :-) Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ If you feel far enough away from other bikers not to wave at them because they're not doing your thing, you're doing the wrong thing. You're neither biker nor motorcyclist. You're a cager on two wheels for the pose value. So fuck off. - Mike Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>