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Automatically Sorting Incoming Mail

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From: Matt Kennel
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:49
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This may be a FAQ, but I'm new at this.

Is there a tool or mailer that can automatically sort incoming messages into
one of a number of folders?


This is what I want:   when mail comes in, and it's not on the list of
of addresses/people that the program knows how to deal with, it asks me
"What mailbox do you want to save this mail to?".  After that, whenever
mail from that person comes, it gets saved to that mailbox automagically.
Sort of like aliases, but for incoming mail.

This seems like a common thing to do.

Right now, I'm using something called "procmail", but it's rather ugly
and hard to use. I have to manually edit a file with some horrible
regexp syntax, etc.

Whenever I see a message, I can figure out right away what category it
should go under, but this is something that surely can't be instantiated
into rules.  For example, responses to usenet postings.


I don't read this group, so please email to
mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu


Thanks in advance,
Matt Kennel
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Subject: Automatically Sorting Incoming Mail
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