On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
> I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
> really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
> block.

It's even "easier" :-)
I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So I have e.g.
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For each of those addresses I create
   .qmail-listname
files that sort it in different mailboxes:

.qmail-freebsd-hackers:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers/

.qmail-freebsd-net:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/net/

.qmail-freebsd-scsi:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi/

> > 3. thread topic support
> The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt,
> but that might be too traditional for your option 1.

I think mutt works really great with qmail. With the above I have in my
.muttrc

mailboxes /home/maex/Maildir/incoming                   \
        /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers        \
        /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/net            \
        /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi           \
        /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable

# freebsd-scsi ------------------------------------------------------------
    folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \
            'my_hdr From: "Markus Stumpf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
    save-hook ~hmaex-lists-freebsd-scsi =lists-archives/freebsd/scsi

I have switched from ELM to mutt and qmail and with the above setup I
have noticed that the time I need for reading my emails dramatically
decreased.

I have also a .qmail-default file which controls all addresses like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] that do not have explicit controls files. If I HAVE
to use an email address somewhere out in the web e.g., I use addresses
like  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I ever get spam via those addresses I can identify where they got the
address from and block/bounce/discard it via an appropriate control
file.

        \Maex

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