[OT?] Re: Mailing List: Subject Tags

[Mark H. Wood]

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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> G'day Elizabeth,
>
> * Elizabeth Dodd <liz at billiau.net> [040723 12:58]:
> > I think that you are using Pine. I have no experience with Pine and cannot
> > advise how to run mail filters.
> > I know how to do them in Kmail, and I do find filtering messages to keep them
> > in order very helpful.
> > Can someone who knows how to do this in Pine help Michael?
>
>
> What about the simpler approach of procmail ???
>
> Use it to rewrite your headers if you want, use it to sort you mail
> into different mailboxes, heck do both...  Don't expect lists to
> change their behaviour because you happen to subscribe to a number of
> them though Michael.

Indeed, I've found that the best way to filter mail in Pine is to do it
outside of Pine, and I currently use procmail:

:0
* ^TO_gnucash-user
gnucash-user

I've actually toyed with the idea of cooking up a procmail recipe to
*remove* those annoying redundant [listname] tags from the Subject: line
so that I will never again have to scan past one to find out what the
subject of a message actually is.

If you don't like procmail, there's also maildrop and probably others.  If
your mail is delivered through Exim, it provides two distinct filtering
languages.  There's any number of tools to do this, and as pointed out
by others there is no need to junk up the Subject: line.

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Mark H. Wood, radical centrist     OpenPGP ID 876A8B75     mhwood at ameritech.net
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