From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 2 17: 5:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E31237B405 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1314vZ38171; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:04:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:04:56 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Kris Kennaway Cc: chip , freebsd chat Subject: Re: email, email, email, :-( Message-ID: <20020203120456.N662@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Kris Kennaway , chip , freebsd chat References: <3C5BA9B8.7070606@wiegand.org> <20020202135508.B9530@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020202135508.B9530@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:55:08PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:55:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:56:24AM -0800, chip wrote: > > > What do some of you guys use, to download, filter, and read your mail > > from so many mail lists? > > I use fetchmail as POP3 client; postfix as MTA; procmail as mail > filter and mutt as MUA. I've never come across a more powerful and > configurable MUA than mutt..it's great! I don't use procmail, it seemed too much hassle for the simple task of separating list messages. I just use mutt. I have a couple of other email addresses for list subscriptions, leaving my main mailbox uncluttered. By changing permissions on files I can access them all with mutt from my normal login. When dealing with lists, I use mutt macros to pull out all mail to a particular list (based on the Sender: header) and save them to individual mail folders. For example, Ctrl-F followed by the first three characters of a FreeBSD list will archive those messages for reading later. Here's part of my .muttrc: # ^K general (^G didn't work) macro index \ckpgs "T~e pgsql-novice^M;s=pgsql-novice^M" macro index \ckbug "T~e bugtraq^M;s=bugtraq^M" macro index \ckcom "T~t compost^M;s=compost^M" # ^F freebsd macro index \cfpor "T~e freebsd-ports^M;s=freebsd-ports^M" macro index \cfsta "T~e freebsd-stable^M;s=freebsd-stable^M" macro index \cfsec "T~e freebsd-security^M;s=freebsd-security^M" macro index \cfisp "T~e freebsd-isp^M;s=freebsd-isp^M" ... and so on. Several macros can be combined into one, too macro index \cf3 "^Fsma^M;^Falp^M;^Fdat^M;^Fmul^M" or tag all the birds lists at once macro index \cksmb "T~t budgielist | ~t clicktrain | ~t birdclick | ~t all4budgies | ~t acockatielone | ~t freeflight | ~t crows^M" Before I do this manual filtering, I can look at the inbox, sorted by date-received, and see _all_ new mail as it arrives, without having to check in several different places and possibly missing an interesting topic while it's hot. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message