On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:06, Collins Richey wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:20:17 +0200 > "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---------- quoting Ron ---------- > > > I am new to Linux and even newer to mailing lists. How do you save > > > the mailing-list emails? Do you move them to a folder in your mail > > > program or do you have a separate directory you use? I like the > > > idea as I have also deleted things I later wished I still had! > > > > I fetch all mails via pop3 with KMail (using maildir) -- no big deal. > > All mails get filtered with Kmail's filter, one or them is for > > gentoo-MLs. -user is stored into it's own folder, and this folder is > > kept, I delete no mails. That's it, your own personal archive... > > > > Almost any mailer on linux has the ability to filter mail by a variety of > criteria and store in specific folders. I use Sylpheed.
Thank you I was questioning whether or not you left them within the mail program or moved them elsewhere. I have started to do the same, filter incoming mail to a folder. I take one more step. When a thread has been inactive for a couple of days I move it to a second folder so I have two one current one archived. -- Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list