Re: sorting mails for mailing lists
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:30:40AM +0200, Paul Puschmann wrote:
> App Xen <appxen@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:36:25PM -0700:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am getting mails from a pop account using fetchmail
> > in to single mbox.
> > They are from different mailing lists and I want to
> > sort the mails into different folders/files. Is it
> > possible with mutt or I need to use any other tool for
> > this? procmail is not an option as there is no mta
> > installed.
> >
> procmail
> maildrop
>
> shouldn't these be able to get mails 'feeded'?
>
> A machine with no mta? strange.
>
Getmail will do it nicely in one step, it's thus rather neater than
fetchmail + procmail (and the syntax is a bit easier to follow too).
In addition getmail can deliver directly to mbox/maildir so you don't
need a local mta.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)