Subject: Multiple Incoming Folders

From: Seth Rogovoy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:18:51 -0400

A few weeks back I posted a request for help on how to create multiple 
incoming folders (to route specific messages, such as from mailing lists, 
to specific inboxes).  A few other people chimed in asking for similar help.

I received several responses, and I appreciate that.  However, they were 
all too complex to figure out (I wasn't the only one who felt this way), 
and involved some amount of "programming," i.e., delicate manipulation of 
Unix files and commands.

Is there really not a simpler way to accomplish this?

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From: Seth Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:27:02 -0500 (CDT)

> Is there really not a simpler way to accomplish this?

Unfortunately, the creators of PINE have yet to incorporate built-in 
filtering...  Hopefully, they will get the marvelous idea in a dream and 
build it someday...  "If you build it, they will come..."  :)

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From: vleugels@po (Dirk Vleugels)
Date: 12 Apr 1996 12:03:04 GMT

Seth Anderson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Seth Rogovoy wrote:

: > A few weeks back I posted a request for help on how to create multiple 
: > incoming folders (to route specific messages, such as from mailing lists, 
: > to specific inboxes).  A few other people chimed in asking for similar help.
: > I received several responses, and I appreciate that.  However, they were 
: > all too complex to figure out (I wasn't the only one who felt this way), 
: > and involved some amount of "programming," i.e., delicate manipulation of 
: > Unix files and commands.
: > Is there really not a simpler way to accomplish this?

Take a look at: 

http://164.107.8.52/text/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html

I use procmail and i'm very pleased.

Cheers,

Dirk

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From: [email-masked] (David Ishee)
Date: 15 Apr 1996 17:33:29 -0600

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Sheryl Coppenger) writes:

> If elm already is installed at your site, you can write a filter-rules
> file that will sort your email into boxes that pine can pick up.  It's
> pretty trivial to do.  I'm not sure I would go through a complete
> elm install just to get that feature though.

Try looking at this web page:
http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/mailbots.html

If you go to the Filtering Mail FAQ, it should help you out. It showed
me how to use procmail to filter my mail and it is easy to figure out
(for simple stuff).

David

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From: [email-masked] (Sheryl Coppenger)
Date: 15 Apr 1996 15:04:36 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,

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