Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> you can do the exact same thing with a simple procmail recipe.
Nifty.
> it can be argued (and as the gnus manual points out) that this
> might be unreliable.
Yeah. The manual goes on to give this tip:
Here's a neat feature: If you know that the recipient reads
her mail with Gnus, and that she has `nnmail-treat-duplicates'
set to `delete', you can send her as many insults as you
like, just by using a `Message-ID' of a mail that you know
that she's already received. Think of all the fun! She'll
never see any of it! Whee!
> you can save them to a separate folder rather than deleting them
> outright if you're paranoid.
Yes, Gnus will do this, too.
> i imagine you could easily use procmail to do something similar
> to what gnus does as well (ie marking it as read)...
Well, Gnus doesn't show you read messages by default--like a
newsreader. And, depending on how you've set things up, you can
make the messages expire after a certain amount of time. So,
after say a week, it would be deleted, and you'll never have seen
it.
If you're a Mutt user, however, the procmail approach looks like
the way to go.
Sam
--
It doesn't matter if you're the greatest guitar player in the world.
If you're not enlightened, forget it. -- George Harrison
