Subject: IN BOX folders?

From: Jennifer Payne <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:43:21 -0400 (EDT)

Hi everyone.
I'm wondering if there's a way to specify where emails are delivered into
Pine.  I would like to create folders within the IN BOX so that emails
with certain subject headings will go to their specified folders.  Is this
possible?

Thanks.
Jenny

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From: Ian Hall-Beyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:17:16 -0600 (MDT)

> with certain subject headings will go to their specified folders.  Is this

Yes, very much so, with procmail. I use it to sort my mail out to about 20
different inboxes.

-Ian

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From: Jessica Rasku <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:11:45 -0700 (PDT)

> Yes, very much so, with procmail. I use it to sort my mail out to about 20

	I know ``me too'' is sort of not appropriate.  It would be nice if
Pine could somehow launch the procmail process (for some people), on start
or something (I've never gotten the ``initial keystrokes'' to work, but I
was probably not looking into it deep enough), as they may not be able to
do it as mail is ariving.  I don't see this as a needed feature (the need
to filter with Pine in this way).  Another thing that will work is to to
select (;) and then apply (a).  But, procmail is the way to do it in most
cases...

							Jessica

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From: Jim Sander <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:09:27 -0400 (EDT)

> It would be nice if Pine could somehow launch the procmail process 

alias pine script-that-calls-procmail-then-pine

   Why make pine do this when the shell already does it much more
effectively and efficiently? You can run procmail on an existing mailbox.
I've never done it, but it's in the docs.

-=Jim=-

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From: Jennifer Payne <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:46:33 -0400 (EDT)

Everyone's suggesting I use 'procmail' to do this, yet I'm a novice and
have no idea if this is part of PINE's setup, or a completely different
program.  

Can anyone give me a few more details?

Thanks. ;)
Jenny

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From: Ian Hall-Beyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:05:45 -0600 (MDT)

> have no idea if this is part of PINE's setup, or a completely different

Procmail is a third-party application, that is quite versatile. Details
can be found at www.procmail.org, along with documentation.

-Ian

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From: Jessica Rasku <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:18:55 -0700 (PDT)

> alias pine script-that-calls-procmail-then-pine

	Yes, that would work, if you could create the script to do that.
It is often bloody frustrating when we are told that you can ``just'' only
to find out that you can't ``just'' because, whatever it is, is not
available to us for whatever reason (right now, this isn't a problem that
I have).  

> I've never done it, but it's in the docs.

	Yes, you have to run the mailbox through formail and get it to run
procmail (or at least that seems to be the case).  Sure, the shell does do
this, and certianly ``effectively''.  But my question is, would it be
something difficult and ``painful'' to implement in pine?

							Jessica