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Article #260Automatically Sorting Incoming Mail
From: Matt Kennel
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:49
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!lyapunov.ucsd.edu!mbk From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Automatically Sorting Incoming Mail Message-ID: <sibufINNokt@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 15 Apr 92 22:49:51 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu