From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 19:45:18 2002 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 A485937B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D342243E3B for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAO3jEuF083618; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:45:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id gAO3jEwF083615; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:45:14 -0700 (MST)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:45:14 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Doug Lee Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail to News software suggestions? In-Reply-To: <20021123231245.GA4342@kirk.dlee.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Doug Lee wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:03:40PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > An alternative that works almost as well and is simpler to set up: have > > procmail sort your mail into different directories by mailing list. > > That addresses the physical storage, but the reason I want news format > is I prefer the nn/trn interface over the mail readers I've used--the > ability to see a screen of subjects, pick what I want to read, then > hit a key to (1) go to the next screen and (2) mark "read" all I did > not mark on the first screen. That's pretty much what I do with Pine. Sorting by "OrderedSubj" does a reasonable job of keeping threads together, and D deletes the message to mark it as read and make it go away. Messages I want to keep as a reminder of a thread just hang around until I delete them. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message