Hello: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:22:23PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > do not tell fetchmail to delete after download (see man page), > then all will remain on gmail's server and will be accessable > via tags/labels or in "all mail".
This is what I do. I already had filters setup on G-mail to automatically archive mailing list posts to keep them out of my inbox. I use fetchmail to retrieve all my mail without deleting it from the remote server. I use procmail to sort it out on my machine. Then I read it and respond to it with mutt (plus Vim, and msmtp). I track my .fetchmailrc, .procmailrc, .muttrc, and .msmtprc in a public GitHub repository if you want to take a look (I mostly took them from existing guides on the Web for using Mutt with G-mail, so I can't really take credit for them): https://github.com/bamccaig/rc/ Credentials are in ~/.netrc (and not tracked in the public repo ;). Let me know if you notice something in the repo that shouldn't be. xD > not to your wishes then subscribe to a second gmail account and > automagically via gmail forward the list mail to the second > account. All you list mail comes from specific addrs so > sorting what you wish deleted is the easiest approach, imnsho. > Then dl with fetchmail list mail from the second account and > tell fetchmail to delete after dl. The mail will all remain in > "all mail" anywhay until you delete it yourself. I'm not sure exactly what this is about. I don't see any need for a second G-mail account. :-/ Before using Mutt I would just filter mailing list (and other noise) messages out of my inbox, leaving them unread. I'd configure G-mail to show interesting labels only when there was new messages. It worked quite well that way. Now that I mostly use Mutt to read my mail I've configured G-mail to mark mail as read when fetched via POP. It still remains in my G-mail account, but it doesn't bother me because it's marked as read and archived and therefore I never see it unless I go looking for it. If I ever need or want to I can still read and respond to my mail from the G-mail Web interface though. HTH, -- Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> Castopulence Software <https://www.castopulence.org/> Blog <http://www.bamccaig.com/> perl -E '$_=q{V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. }. q{Vg qbrfa'\''g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl.}; tr/A-Ma-mN-Zn-z/N-Zn-zA-Ma-m/;say'
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