Subject: Re: Filtering messages

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 20:25:13 -0400

On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Balaji C Krishnan wrote:

> 	I am on a unix system. I am now on multiple mailing lists and 
> receive close to 150 mails a day. I was wondering if I may be able to 
> setup a filtering system such that the mails from the listservs can be 
> saved in separate folders.  [...]

    Yes, this is easy to do with tools such as procmail (which I use)
and filter.  You do not need any shell scripts for procmail.  Nancy
McGough has a lot of good information on how to set up mail filtering. 
If you have a WWW browser, browse my home page: I have a link to
Nancy's site (and a mirror) where you can get a lot of directions.

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From: Balaji C Krishnan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:22:02 -0500

Hi,
	I am on a unix system. I am now on multiple mailing lists and 
receive close to 150 mails a day. I was wondering if I may be able to 
setup a filtering system such that the mails from the listservs can be 
saved in separate folders. I understand that filtering devices such as 
Procmail, Elm filter exist. I would like to use Procmail to set it up. 
One of my friends mentioned that I may have to set up a shell script to 
do the same. I also understand that it is possible to set up filtering in 
Eudora. However I am using Pine. Has anybody faced a similar situation (I 
am sure many would have). Can anybody guide me?
Thanks.
Balaji
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From: Timothy Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:29:14 -0400 (EDT)

Don't use anything other than procmail.

If you write your own, you risk losing email to an unforseen error,
whereas procmail is already setup to check for every know possibility.

It is also free, there are vast archives of examples, and a mailing list.

Most decent ISPs already have it installed.

ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz

TjL