Re: Selectively downloading email based on headers?

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From: Simon Child
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00

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On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:20:18 GMT, Simon Thompson <simon@tyrant.demon.co.uk> 
wrote:
>Does anyone know how/if it is possible to only download mail based on
>a header such as the From: field?
>The ideal solution is having something like fetchmail dialling in
>periodically and downloading all mail for simon@tyrant.demon.co.uk if
>it is from the various mailing lists I am subscribed to. This way I
>can check my mail when I am at uni or wherever and don't have to
>browse through all the list mail which I don't want to see till I get
>home.

Lateral thinking.

As you have a demon account, you can have a different email address for
each mailing list. e.g. resubscribe to your lists as simona for list to 
do with aardvarks, simonb for list to do with books... etc

Then just get fetchmail to fetch the mail for simon only.


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