Subject: Sorted mail

From: "Karl F. Larsen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 05:41:22 -0700 (MST)

For over 6 years I have been reciving many lists on this Linux
computer and have pine as the actual mail reader. But pine does not pop
the mail from my ISP, and pine does not sort the mail as it comes in. 

	I use fetchpop to get the mail and put it all in a user defined
file. The procmail is called and it takes the mail from the file and sorts
it into 8 new files that are read by pine. In that way I don't have a
whole jumble of messages to sort out myself.

	If your using Linux this is pretty easy to set up. I have a help
file on how to do this and will send it to anyone interested.

Yours Truly,

  	 - Karl F. Larsen, [email-masked]  (505) 524-3303  -

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From: Frank Tobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 06:58:56 -0600 (CST)

Karl F. Larsen, at 05:41 -0700 on Sun, 17 Dec 2000, wrote:

    	I use fetchpop to get the mail and put it all in a user
    defined file. The procmail is called and it takes the mail from
    the file and sorts it into 8 new files that are read by pine. In
    that way I don't have a whole jumble of messages to sort out
    myself.

FYI, procmail can be considered the "de-facto" mail-processing program,
capable of doing pretty much anything with mails (with sorting being the
trivial expample).

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:15:09 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> But pine does not pop the mail from my ISP, and pine does not sort
> the mail as it comes in.

Actually, you should upgrade from 4.10 to the new 4.31 to get some new
features.

Pine 4.10 should be able to read POP3 mail from your ISP's server.
>From Pine 4.20 onwards, Pine also does filtering. It isn't as
intricate as procmail allows, but it handles my mailing-list needs.

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Gopi Sundaram
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