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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:38:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Mail client program reccomendations?
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> I'm interested to know what other people consider to be the better client
> programs for handling large ammounts of email.  I've been using Pine and
> it just doesn't do what I need.  I recieve copies of every item going
> through our newswires, as well as mailing lists and more personal
> discussion and need to be able to archive, manage and quickly access many
> thousands of email messages.  I need to have important stuff brought to my
> attention, and have less important stuff quietly archived. I'm interested
> to hear about commercial packages as well as free ones.

You need to discover procmail.  I use it to split out all of my mailing
lists into separate folders, ie questions mail goes into a questions
folder, current into current, and so forth.  My main inbox stays fairly
clean.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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