On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:48:38PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 01:33:24PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > Just to report success. It all appears to be working as I want with > > 'real' directories for my mail hierarchy. > > Glad to hear it. > > > It was basically quite simple to do, mostly using 'find', first to > > create a copy of my old mbox directory hierarchy and then to run mb2md > > against each mbox to the required destination in the new hierarchy. > > > > Obviously there were a few changes to my muttrc to tell mutt to create > > maildir rather than mbox and the delivery/filter program run by > > .forward has to create maildir mails rather than mbox ones (which > > makes it a lot simpler of course). > > I confess to some curiosity here... What are you doing in your > home-grown MDA, that you could not already do with procmail, which (if > you're on a Linux system at least) your mail system is most likely > already using to deliver your mail? > It's all driven from one text file so that when I subscribe to a new mailing list all I have to do is add an entry to that file. No changing of procmail rules, no additions to muttrc. I have attached the filter file to this message, the comments explain it at least as well as I can here.
-- Chris Green
# # # Mail filterfile, used to generate Mutt aliases and for filtering mail into mailboxes, # it's used by:- # getAliases.py - generates mutt aliases for the mailing lists # getLists.py - generates list names for mutt 'subscribe' and 'lists' commands # filter.py - called by .forward, delivers mail to appropriate mail box # # The mutt aliases are the 'Name' in the first column, mail to the 'Name' will # be sent to the "To/CC matching string". Where there is more than one entry # with the same name then mutt will send to the last one so the preferred E-Mail # address should always be the last entry (see alug and ixion for examples). # # Any mail received which has a To: or Cc: which matches the "To/CC matching string" # will be put in a mailbox 'Name' in directory 'Dir' under ~/Mail. There can (as # noted above) be more than one entry with the same name in the first column, this # allows E-Mail from different addresses to be delivered to the same mbox. Note also # that xubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com has to precede ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com as # otherwise the xubuntu mails get caught by ubuntu. # # The fourth column (if present) is a string to be stripped from the Subject: line # of messages to the corresponding list. The string is expected to be surrounded # by []. It's also used as a 'list' match in some cases where the To: and Cc: # fields aren't related to the list. # # The fifth column (if present) is an additional matching parameter to be matched # as well as the To/CC destination address. This allows Ipswich Freegle messages # to be split into separate mbox destinations. The ifc destination mbox is where # a message without offer, received, taken or wanted in the Subject: will go. # # The c...@isbd.net entry means that replies to subscription requests etc. will end up # in a 'list' folder so that my confirmation does come from c...@isbd.net. (I'm not # sure that this actually works) # # Name Dir To/CC matching string Strip from subject alug Li annou...@lists.alug.org.uk ALUG alug Li m...@lists.alug.org.uk ALUG audacity Li audacity-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Audacity-users baa-rag Li baa-...@yahoogroups.com bba-rag bbb Li beagleb...@googlegroups.com BHS Li bhs-suff...@yahoogroups.co.uk BHS-Suffolk cheddar Li cheddar-us...@lists.halon.org.uk digikam Li digikam-us...@kde.org Digikam-users digitemp Li digit...@googlegroups.com dnsmasq Li dnsmasq-disc...@lists.thekelleys.org.uk Dnsmasq-discuss dnsmasq Li dnsmasq-disc...@thekelleys.org.uk Dnsmasq-discuss docutils Li docutils-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Docutils-users dokuwiki Li dokuw...@freelists.org dokuwiki EKS Li e...@yahoogroups.com ex-vidus Li ex-vi...@googlegroups.com fail2ban Li fail2ban-us...@lists.sourceforge.net geda Li geda-u...@delorie.com glabels Li glabels-de...@lists.sourceforge.net gnome-db Li gnome-db-l...@gnome.org gnucash Li gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org GNC gnucash Li gnucash-u...@gnucash.org grub Li help-g...@gnu.org ixion Li ix...@ixiemaster.ixion.org.uk ixion Li ix...@ixion.org.uk kurviger Li kurvi...@googlegroups.com leafnode Li leafnode-l...@dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de leafnode-list mercurial Li mercur...@mercurial-scm.org mutt Li mutt-users@mutt.org owfs Li owfs-develop...@lists.sourceforge.net Owfs-developers photini Li phot...@googlegroups.com postfix Li postfix-us...@postfix.org # raid Li linux-r...@vger.kernel.org snaffle Li snaf...@yahoogroups.com sqlkit Li sql...@googlegroups.com starbase Li starbase-...@yahoogroups.com starbase-dev starbase Li starbase-...@groups.io syncthing Li nore...@syncthing.net "Syncthing Forum" teams Li dokuwiki-te...@freelists.org dokuwiki-teams tin-users Li tin-us...@tin.org xubuntu Li xubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com xubuntu-users ubuntu Li ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com uk-r Li uk-rid...@the-hug.net uk-riders UKRAA-insts Li ukraa-instrume...@yahoogroups.com UKRAA-instruments vbox Li vbox-users-commun...@lists.sourceforge.net VBox-users vile Li v...@nongnu.org wxformbuilder Li wxformbuilder-de...@lists.sourceforge.net x2go Li x2go-u...@lists.x2go.org xfce Li x...@xfce.org yad Li yad-com...@googlegroups.com # # # Ipswich Freegle (Freecycle) need special handling as the list address isn't in To: or Cc: # ifcoffer, ifcreceived, ifctaken and ifcwanted are for mails from the list, ifc is for # sending to the list. # ifcoffer Li ilovefreegle.org "Ipswich Recycle" ifcreceived Ju ilovefreegle.org "Ipswich Recycle" ifctaken Ju ilovefreegle.org "Ipswich Recycle" ifcwanted Li ilovefreegle.org "Ipswich Recycle" ifc Li ipswichrecy...@groups.ilovefreegle.org ifccafe Li ipswichrecyclec...@yahoogroups.com ifcmods Li ipswichrecycle-ow...@yahoogroups.com # # # Put this 'pseudo-list' after the rest so real lists have precedence in the search # cl Li c...@isbd.net # # # Other lists that I'm subscribed to but read via the gmane NNTP interface # canals Ju canals-l...@yahoogroups.com canals-list sqlite Ju sqlite-us...@sqlite.org sqlite web2py Ju web...@googlegroups.com web2py # # # Non-mailing-list mail, this delivers my mail to mbox files in In, or unwanted stuff to junk. # odin, linkedin and twitter have to be before inbox as they have 'chris' in the mail address field. # The odin entry is to catch all the mail errors that the BBB on Odin sends when the WiFi # connection goes down # linkedin Ju linkedin.ch...@isbd.co.uk twitter Ju twitter.ch...@isbd.co.uk odin Ju ch...@odin.zbmc.be bcs In bcs inbox In chris inbox In chrisisbd tinnews Ju tinnews
