Re: which biff for maildir?
On 09Nov2006 19:17, Russell L. Harris <rlharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Which biff works best for the maildir structure?
| My mail processing chain is:
| POP3 server at ISP ->
| getmail4 (run by cron) ->
| maildrop (sorting mail into categories and sub-categories) ->
| mutt
[...]
| I do not care to know simply that mail has been delivered. What I
| need to know is whether mail has been delivered to specific maildirs
| in which I have particular interest, such as:
|
My "maildrop" step (a shell script wrapped around procmail) runs off
rules that will run an "alert" command for the interesting messages.
For me, this alert writes a (yellow) message summary line to a log file,
and I always have a small window running "tail -f the-log-file".
That's my biff.
| Also, I am starting to conclude that, with mutt, it is too tedious to
| keep more than one level of mail directory, and that it might be
| better to simplify the structure to:
|
| ~/mail/computer-debian
| ~/mail/computer-mutt
| ~/mail/university
|
| Recommendations?
My folders are flat too.
One thing I do is file several mailing lists into a single folder, and
have the mail filer ass "X-Label:" headers to the messages. The I have
mutt include that label in the index line. That way I can have all the
"unix" lists in the unix folder, but still know their subcategory from
the label.
Cheers,
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