David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 27 Apr 2000:
> So far, I have found mention of
>
> procmail
> maildrop
> mailfilter
> sieve
> exim
... also qmail, you can have the .qmail-extension files in your home
dir with different delivery instructions for your
username-extension@host addresses. But if you have shell access you
you might as well run a mail filtering tool...
> Now, is mbox-hook what I want? The typical user is going to have all of
> his email dumped right into $MAIL and then want mutt to move Linux stuff
> here and mutt stuff there and cron jobs elsewhere, and I don't know that
> mbox-hook gives me that. Maybe save-hook instead?
This is of course the wrong way to do it, you're just making pliers into
a hammer. It works, sort of, but not what it was designed for... It's
better to run a real mail filtering tool. But, I guess you're already
aware of this.
You can probably do things with folder-hooks and macros, although if you
use tag-pattern (virtually a necessity) you still get that problem case
when there are no messages tagged, and the command then applies to the
current message.
If mbox-hook would allow for the usual Mutt patterns and thus allow
saving ("moving") messages to another folder on message-by-message
basis. But according to the docs the pattern will only match the
folder name, so all you can do is move all messages from a particular
folder to another folder. Not much help here. (I don't actually
understand why mbox-hook exists, since you can get the same
functionality with folder-hooks combined with set mbox... If mbox-hook
would allow for per-message matching, it would be a different matter.)
Anyway, adding a folder-match operator to the Mutt regexps and then
changing mbox-hook to be per-message would retain the old functionality
and also make this command much more flexible. But I don't know how
feasible that would be.
save-hooks would be ideal except that you'd need some way to apply them
one-by-one to every message in the folder, and I don't think there is a
method for that.
> TIA for any input you can provide, particularly for the last case. Did
> anyone ever write that IMAP filtering tool mentioned a few months back? :-)
Not that I'm aware of. It might be an interesting project to start, but
I don't need IMAP myself and haven't even installed it out of curiosity
yet. :-)
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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