Subject: Filtering mail automatically ? How ?

From: [email-masked] (Benedikt Laube)
Date: 22 May 1996 13:45:48 GMT

Hello !

Please can anyone give me a hint how
I can filter mail in pine...?

I want to sort incoming mail into folders,
so I can archive my mailing list mail seperate
from my personal mail. Therefore I would
need to Filter the Mail by sender and/or subject.

Is it possible that If I start Pine, it sorts all
the new messages in the proper folder ?

I didnDt find any hints on this.

TIA
[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:15:34 -0400

On 22 May 1996, Benedikt Laube wrote:

> [...]

    This is such a frequent question it needs to be in an FAQ somewhere. 
Pine by itself will not filter mail into separate incoming folders. 
You have to use something which operates before Pine.  You did not say
what operating system you are using, but if it is Un*x, two of the most
popular programs are filter and procmail.

    If you have a World Wide Web browser, browse my home page and
follow the link to Nancy McGough's pages.  She has a lot of good
material on how to do mail filtering.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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