Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:26:36 -0500 From: ch <ch@shot1.org> To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? Message-ID: <20030227212636.A82260@bus.shot1.org> In-Reply-To: <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov>; from Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:43:10PM -0800 References: <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov>
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> On Tuesday, I subscribed to the e-mail version of freebsd-questions. > Because it generated messages at the rate of about two per minute all day > long, and I received them on my employer's computer, and just the amount of > time it took to delete the messages was interfering with my productivity, I > had to unsubscribe on Wednesday. I was fascinated by the messages as I am > a newbie still trying to get my BSD system going and many of them pertained > to issues that I expect to face. I may be in fantasy-land, but I will ask > this question anyway. Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which > the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto > his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? Kudos to any > person who takes the time to read any significant portion of the messages, > and especially many thanks to those kind soles who actually take the time > to respond. Both of the questions that I posted in the past did receive a > response. Thank you. Like you I just signed up and was amazed at how much mail this list genereated. After some googeling, I found that procmail and mutt was the answer. Have a look at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ A procmail recipe with ^TO_freebsd-questions@freebsd.org will catch all of these emails and you can throw them into a separate unix mbox. Regards, Brian Roberts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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