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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:33:17AM -0700, Matthew J. Probst wrote:
> Given the recent posts for people wishing to unsubscribe themselves, I
> think that perhaps we need a good tutorial meeting for those who are not
> using procmail or some other mail sorting program.
Or perhaps include a paragraph on this in the ``Welcome'' e-mail that
is sent to new subscribers. I would write something like:
---
The UUG mailing list is fairly active. You can expect to receive 50
or more e-mails a day from this list. It is probably in your best
interest to tell your system to sort the UUG messages into another
folder, so as to keep your regular e-mail from getting mixed in with
your mailing list e-mail.
You can most easily accomplish this task by creating a ``~/.forward''
file (which is in your home directory), like so:
# echo "\"|exec /usr/bin/procmail\"" > ~/.forward
Make sure that you have already installed procmail previous to doing
this (for Debian users or RedHat users with apt installed):
# apt-get install procmail
Next, you want ot make sure to have something like the following in
your ``~/.procmailrc'' file:
---
PATH=3D/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=3D$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists (mkdir ~/Mail)
DEFAULT=3D$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional
LOGFILE=3D$MAILDIR/from #recommended
:0:
* ^TO.*uug-list
uug
---
With the above example, your regular e-mail will be appended to the
``~/Mail/mbox'' file, and the UUG mailing list mail will be appended
to the ``~/Mail/uug'' file. Configure your mail user agent (e.g. Mutt,
Evolution, Pine) accordingly.
If you use a Hotmail or BYU Route-Y account, then consider
unsubscribing until you get that problem fixed.
---
Mike
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