On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:03:24AM -1000, Marc Adler wrote: > 2) use procmail to filter your messages to different mailboxes.
Nancy McGough has a very good procmail tutorial at the Infinite Ink website (http://www.ii.com). She walks you through making a good ~/.procmailrc and making procmail recipies to sort your mail. Use her templates and you'll be up and running in a few minutes. You can even get statistics on which mail gets sorted into which folder if you get cron (crontab -e) to call a script every night. Very informative, especially if you're on as many mail lists as me. 1 0 * * * $HOME/bin/procmail_log.sh #!/bin/bash # procmail_log.sh: mail the daily procmail stats to $USER mailstat $HOME/.procmail/log|mail $USER -s "`date '+%a %d %b %Y'` mail log" > 3) configure mutt to read those different mailboxes. (All you have to > do, actually, is point mutt to, say, 'mbox' in your /Mail directory > and then you can move around to any other mailbox or directory using > the 'c' command.) You can tell mutt about your different mailboxes by saving something like the following to your ~/.muttrc # Make sure mutt knows where your mail folder is set folder=~/Mail # Tell me about mail in these mailboxes mailboxes ! +root +maillog +crypto-gram +kernel-traffic +debian-announce +debian-user +ipcop-user +sv24 +shell.scripting +redhat-list +annoyances You can also tell bash about these mailboxes by adding a few lines to your ~/.bash_profile MAILPATH=/var/spool/mail/$USER for i in `echo ~/Mail/{root,maillog,crypto-gram,kernel-traffic,debian-announce,debian-user,ipcop-user,sv24,shell.scripting,redhat-list,annoyances}` do export MAILPATH=$MAILPATH:$i done unset i Anyway, I get about 300 email messages a day and they're very easy to deal with since the mail basically sorts itself. And also because of spamassassin, but that's a different story. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
