Using a large mallet, Darren Evans whacked out:

> I'm subscribed to several mailing lists and like to download
> email via pop3 but not delete it from a unix shell to view
> important email.
 
 Use fetchmail with the keep option - popping mails using mutt's built in pop3
 is a royal pain.
 
> I would like to weed out some mailing lists i'm on from my local
> mailbox so I can view important messages only in my mailbox.

 use procmail to split the mail - if you use the keep option the mail remains
 on your remote mailbox so you can pop it down unmangled later
 
> I don't want to use procmail to split the mailing lists into seperate
> mailing lists, i'd like to get mutt to just not display those messages,
> i'm just getting a little confused with the configuration.

 use the limit function in your muttrc

        -s

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