Re: newbie: filtering email
* Don Raikes <don@xxxxxxxxxxx> [06-15-08 23:33]:
> I am a newbie to mutt, having just set it up last week.
you have found a gem :^)
> I receive a ton of email and I want to knwo the best way to filter the
> email into folders.
>
> I have looked at some examples of procmail recipes, but can't figure
> out how to tie mutt and procmail together.
you don't really. You must hand off your inbound mail to procmail to
sort into folders, then view the folders with mutt.
I use: postfix -> procmail -> local folders <-> read w/mutt
and: fetchmail -> procmail -> local folders <-> read w/mutt
> Any suggestions appreciated.
an excellent description/tutorial for beginning procmai by Nancy McGough:
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
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