mutt and mailing lists

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Also, one thing I should have mentioned is that I am using IMAP.
Upon further inspection, I have found that what I should use is not
procmail, but something like imapfilter.

Thanks for the pointers!

Mike

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:14:32AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:00:54AM -0600, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> > For reasons that are unknowable even to myself, I use mutt as my
> > email client. However, thus far I haven't been able to figure out
> > exactly how to have particular messages placed into a specific
> > mailbox. In particular, I would like to place messages from high
> > traffic mailing lists into list-specific mailboxes.
> > 
> > I have been told that I should be able to do this easily with
> > procmail, but before I try that, does anyone know if there is a
> > reasonably straightforward way to accomplish this with mutt alone?
> 
> The right answer is, indeed, procmail. You'd use a rule like
> this to have procmail auto-file a message from
> 'ubuntu-users' into the 'ubuntu' box:
> 
> :0
> * From: ubuntu-users
> ubuntu
> 
> Mutt will not auto-file messages for you. Mutt will,
> however, take hints about where to save messages if you
> press 's' while your cursor is over a given message. You can
> put this in your ~/.muttrc:
> 
> save-hook '~f ubuntu-users' '=ubuntu'
> 
>  From then on, all you need to do is press 's' while the
> cursor's on the message, then press enter; the message will
> go in the ubuntu folder.
> 
> For my money, mutt is the best email program I've ever used.
> It makes every other email client look like un-customizable
> crap. I've got mutt customized to the hilt, and I'll never
> use any other email client unless forced to.
> 
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