From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 18:26:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3675137B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:26:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from bus.shot1.org (dsl093-061-039.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784B843FAF for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:26:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ch@bus.shot1.org) Received: by bus.shot1.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 48B15AD38; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:26:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:26:36 -0500 From: ch To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? Message-ID: <20030227212636.A82260@bus.shot1.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:43:10PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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