Re: Sorting mail
René Clerc [rene@xxxxxxxx] asserted:
> * Zbynek Houska <zbynh@xxxxxxxxx> [28-09-2003 12:19]:
>
> > I wonder is it possible to sort and weed incoming incoming mail
> > using mutt?
>
> Not really, though there are save-hooks.
>
> > I have dial-up connection to internet and I'm not able to get procmail
> > working.(I'm not receiving mail by MTA, but rather via pop3). So I
> > wonder if can simply include some rules to do same job from within of
> > mutt?
>
> I use getmail to retrieve mail from a few pop accounts that I have,
> and getmail feeds the newly downloaded mail into procmail, which then
> takes care of the sorting. Mutt is a mail reader, not a mail sorter.
I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from many pop3 sources. Until recently some
of these were accessible through dial-up only, but that is incidental. I use
maildrop to process these into folders for mutt to read. It all works very
well, most of the time ;-}
YMMV
HTH
P
>
> --
> René Clerc - (rene@xxxxxxxx)
>
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