On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:55:52AM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I have a little problem. I'm subscribed to three mailing lists (debian-user, > agenda-user, and sdl), and the mail is a little overwhelming. > It looks like the best way to filter would be to use procmail, so I set up my > .procmailrc like so: > > <procmailrc> > #debian-user mailing list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Mail/debian-user
Here is what I just created and it seems to work. ------------------ snip ---------------------------------------- # .procmailrc # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes # see man procmailrc and man procmailex PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ LOGFILE=/dev/null SHELL=/bin/sh # debian-user mail :0: # last colon means a lock file * ^Resent-From:.*debian-user debian-user # put them in this folder # debian-security mail (includes debian-security-announce) :0: * ^Resent-From:.*debian-security debian-security # portfolio reports in monthly gziped files # later I will figure out how to get rid of unnecessary headers except # date :0: * ^Subject: Portfolio Report | gzip >> portfolio`date +%y-%m`.gz # abiword-user mail :0: * ^(To:|CC:|Sender:).*abiword-user abiword-user ---------------- snip -------------------------------------- I hope that helps. cheers Mark.
