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Re: newbie: filtering email



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On Sunday, June 15 at 08:32 PM, quoth Don Raikes:
> I am a newbie to mutt, having just set it up last week.

Welcome!

> I receive a ton of email and I want to knwo the best way to filter 
> the email into folders.

The "best" way depends on your situation. For example, if you're 
leaving your email on a remote server, the IMAPFilter program may be 
more appropriate for your needs.

Procmail is... well, the best that can be said about it is that it is 
a tool best used by people who really know what they're doing (or who 
are pretty stubborn---which is why I use it). It has some pretty 
glaring flaws (doesn't handle delivery failure very well), and you're 
probably better off learning to use something like maildrop. Depending 
on who you ask, maildrop has a simpler and/or more obvious syntax.

> I have looked at some examples of procmail recipes, but can't figure 
> out how to tie mutt and procmail together.

Procmail and maildrop are MDAs - mail DELIVERY agents. That is, they 
receive mail and deliver it to mailboxes. Then you use mutt to read 
those mailboxes. Procmail and maildrop are NOT for taking a large 
folder of email and sorting it into sub-folders (though there are ways 
of using them to do that, it's generally not the most obvious or most 
efficient way to use them); instead they are designed for being part 
of the mail delivery process (i.e. they should be triggered by your 
mail server or by your fetchmail/gotmail program).

Does that help, or am I just confusing you?

~Kyle
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for 
complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; 
the philosophy is kindness.
                                                          -- Dalai Lama
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