Michael Halcrow wrote:
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=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists (mkdir ~/Mail) DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional LOGFILE=$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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