Re: Can one 'filter' a message being viewed?
Regarding the issue of managing mailing lists:
My solution to this was to create a number of local newsgroups and feed the
mail from each list into its own group using a mail processing program [I
use the perl-based mailagent(1)]. I then read messages using my newsreader
[nn(1)] which I find much faster as the user and subject get automatically
organized and presented in a manner that let's me very quickly peruse and
dispose of the messages. I probably subscribe to 50-75 mailing list and
find it all very manageable. Why, right now I'm reading this message in my
local.mutt newsgroup with nn and replying from there!
The downside is that my news system (C news) strips off attachments and all
the HTML portions of each message. The good news is that my news system
strips off attachments and all the HTML portions of each message. :-)
All local mailing lists get an entry in my C news mailpaths file stating
where the "posts" are to be mailed. I did discovered that my news system
was not adding a To: line to the resulting email messages when I replied
to the "newsgroup" and this caused some mailing lists to reject the
submission. I fixed this by creating a new maillists file which listed all
the local mailing list groups and then modifying the injnews script to add
the To: header. This seems to make everyone happy.
Regards,
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Jeffery Small