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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


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