On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:29:51PM +0100, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| * Steven Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-12-07 14:53]:
| >Anyhow, I'm on a couple of mailing lists and am beginning to find
| >that my inbox is getting quite full. What program is the best to use
| >for sorting my incoming messages into different folders? I've heard
| >that Procmail is user-hell, but I know people who swear by it. Is
| >there a better program to use, or is Procmail "the" software?
|
| Procmail is indeed a close relative to Sendmail, it's rc file syntax
| is bloody. I propose Mail::Audit if you know Perl, Maildrop otherwise.
Procmail is pretty verbose, but you don't have to deal with it directly.
I use this:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cats2procmailrc/
to read list of simple one line rules for filing and write a procmailrc
from that. Maintenance is: hack rules, rerun cats2procmailrc.
Disclaimer: yeah, I wrote this tool.
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.
