Re: tip: seperate list mail from inbox w/ procmail

I love unix and command lines in general. For those who have windows, however, this is also possible. I will use MS Outlook Express as an example. I've got version 5.5, but earlier versions should be similar. 1. Go to tools | message rules | mail. 2. Click new. 3. There will be a rather complicated dialog that opens. You want to specify some criteria for the special messages and what to do with them. 4. For criteria, select the one that says "to or cc line contains". 5. For the action, check "move it to specified folder" 6. Now you want to specify values for the criteria and the action. There will be a box with the criteria and action things as selected. Click on the underlined words. 7. For the criteria, you want to enter a text string that appears in all list messages. A good candidate is the e-mail address php-general@lists.php.net. 8. For the folder, choose or create one. 9. Click OK and save the rule. All new messages downloaded from the list should go to the specified folder, segragated from your inbox. Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Olson" <philip@theprojects.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 6:47 PM Subject: [PHP] tip: seperate list mail from inbox w/ procmail > > Here's a tip that assumes : > > a. You don't want php mailing list emails going through your inbox as > maybe you feel the list fills it up to fast. > b. You have procmail (procmail.org) or will get it (you should!) > c. You are running some form of Unix (anything but windows i think) > > With procmail you can redirect mail to other folders. Below is an example > of how to do it with php-general. > > <snip from .procmailrc> > > :0 > * ^(Sender|To|Cc):.*php-general.*@.*lists.php.net.* > in-php-general > > </snip from .procmailrc> > > Now, a file called 'in-php-general' will be created and hold all mail from > php-general mailing list in unix mail spool format. > > The above assumes you have configured .procmailrc mail folder directory > (MAILDIR) 'properly'. See your .procmailrc for details, the default is > helpful in this regard. Your .procmailrc *should* be in your home > directory ($HOME). Any *good* host will have this setup for you and if > they don't just ask, they will love that :) > > To view your mail (I only know mutt/pine , there are others like elm) : > > 1. In Pine : 'l' for folder list, choose folder. (that's the letter l) > 2. In Mutt : 'c' for folder list, choose folder. > > If you have thoughts on this feel free to email me or the list, I am > looking into creating a more robust tutorial and am always wanting to > expand my procmail horizons. > > Btw, you can add multiple folders for other lists, such as php-db. > Procmail is your friend and is powerful so be careful or you'll learn it > the hard way (I did!). Let's just say for a couple months every email > with 'test' in the subject line was put into a directory that I did not > know about. > > Regards, > > Philip > > ref: > ---- > mutt : http://www.mutt.org/ > pine : http://www.washington.edu/pine/ > procmail : http://www.procmail.org/ > php list : http://php.net/support.php > > --- > without php my name would be ili ! > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >