Subject: Re: Sorting mailing list mail?

From: "Paul O. Bartlett" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 10:44:41 -0400

On 9 May 1995, Roberts Freimuts wrote:

> Date: 9 MAY 1995 13:13:08 GMT 
> From: Roberts Freimuts <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Sorting mailing list mail? 
> 
> Most mail that comes from a mailing list has not only a "From:"
> line in the header but also a ":Reply to:" line.
> 
> Could this fact be used to sort the private mail received by Pine from 
> the mail coming via a mailing list.
> [...]

   This is essentially the frequent question about filtering mail based on 
criteria so that mailing list messages go one way and regular, "personal 
mail" messages go another.  As has been noted, there are various ways to 
accomplish this *outside* of Pine, which does not do mail filtering by 
itself.  Unfortunately you did not say what kind of system you are 
running on (Unix, PC-Pine, whatever), and the techniques will differ 
accordingly.  (If you are on Unix and have procmail available, it should 
be fairly easy, although I have not experimented to see whether procmail 
can process based on a "Reply-to: line.)  Nancy McGough's mail filtering 
FAQ is a good place to start.  It is available at:

    ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering_mail_faq.txt
    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq

(Send me an email if you have problems getting hold of it.)

Paul

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From: [email-masked] (Roberts Freimuts)
Date: 9 May 1995 13:13:08 GMT

I want to read the mailing list mail, that is why I subscribe to the 
mailing list, but it would be nice to read my private mail first. 

Also might it be possible to group all mail from one mailing list together?

The ultimate would be an incoming mail file with personal mail first 
followed by mailing list mail grouped by mailing lists.

Is that possible? How?

Thank you for any help

Roberts Freimuts

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 18 May 1995 12:39:40 GMT

Roberts Freimuts ([email-masked]) wrote:
       some stuff and then ... ...

: I want to read the mailing list mail, that is why I subscribe to the 
: mailing list, but it would be nice to read my private mail first. 

Private mail should have a + on the left side of the screen, so you can 
readily distinguish it from list stuff.

: Also might it be possible to group all mail from one mailing list together?

Not automatically, if that's what you mean, but make a folder for each 
list and (s)ave them to the applicable folder, then read them when you 
get a chance.