On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Peter Shute wrote:
On 17 Dec 2014, at 8:58 pm, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
I am subscribed in MIME digest mode to all lists which support them. I
find they are a great way to receive messages once per day (more or less)
without being pestered by single messages as they come.
So you have found a way to bypass the digest and pestering me ! :-)
this splits the digest into a mail folder.
So this breaks the digest into separate emails? Wouldn't it be simpler
to have a message rule that diverts the individual emails into a folder
on arrival instead of using digest mode? Or doesn't Alpine support that
kind of thing?
technically speaking, "on arrival" pertains to a mail delivery agent, and
not to a MUA, which may operate when first entered by the user.
Perhaps it is possible to use Alpine "filter rules", but I never tried
them and am not familiar with them.
On the other hand formail is part of procmail, which IS a delivery agent
(actually on my SuSE it is the default delivery agent of sendmail). Any
"filtering on arrival" can be more or less easily done with procmail.
I do an extensive use of it http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/Procmail/
So you could do what you propose straight with procmail !
It is mainly a matter of user preferences (YMMV ?)
I do divert some specific messages to specific folders, seminar
announcements for one, and different level of spam for another.
Concerning mailing lists, I consider them of a more transient nature, I am
not interested in keeping their messages "forever". So the MIME digest
mechanism is fine insofar I want to receive all messages of the day at one
moment. Then I usually look at the list of messages (almost all digests I
know, notably the ones generated by mailman, have a list of subjects
close to the top) ... if I see no subjects which interest me I just delete
the entire digest. If I see something interesting, I press D, expand in a
temporary folder, read the messages and reply to or archive the few really
interesting ones.
I actually do use procmail on mailing lists to divert their messages
(which usually are entire digests) to a specific folder when on vacation.
We can have pretty long vacations in this country :-)
I have divided the lists I am subscribed to in two categories and so have
just two folders, one per category.
For the less interesting lists, when I am away I divert them to /dev/null.
For the most interesting lsits, I divert them to a cumulative folder, so I
can read them when I am back.
This way my INBOX is not cluttered with mailing list messages, but only
with messages from invididuals. This makes easy to sort the backlog when I
return. Or to access the INBOX via a webmailer (which I may do once or
twice per vacation period ... I am not the type which needs to be
permanently connected :-))
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