Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 13:21:09 +0200 From: Markus Stumpf <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa) Message-ID: <19990909132109.O5150@space.net> In-Reply-To: <19990909120801.A49847@gurney.reilly.home>; from Andrew Reilly on Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM %2B1000 References: <5088.936836795@localhost> <199909090043.RAA39434@rah.star-gate.com> <19990909120801.A49847@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
> I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
> really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
> block.
It's even "easier" :-)
I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
maex-listname@space.net
So I have e.g.
maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net
maex-freebsd-net@Space.Net
maex-freebsd-scsi@Space.Net
For each of those addresses I create
.qmail-listname
files that sort it in different mailboxes:
.qmail-freebsd-hackers:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers/
.qmail-freebsd-net:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/net/
.qmail-freebsd-scsi:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi/
> > 3. thread topic support
> The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt,
> but that might be too traditional for your option 1.
I think mutt works really great with qmail. With the above I have in my
.muttrc
mailboxes /home/maex/Maildir/incoming \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/net \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable
# freebsd-scsi ------------------------------------------------------------
folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \
'my_hdr From: "Markus Stumpf" <maex-lists-freebsd-scsi@Space.Net>'
save-hook ~hmaex-lists-freebsd-scsi =lists-archives/freebsd/scsi
I have switched from ELM to mutt and qmail and with the above setup I
have noticed that the time I need for reading my emails dramatically
decreased.
I have also a .qmail-default file which controls all addresses like
maex-anything@space.net that do not have explicit controls files. If I HAVE
to use an email address somewhere out in the web e.g., I use addresses
like maex-net-access-cnn@space.net
If I ever get spam via those addresses I can identify where they got the
address from and block/bounce/discard it via an appropriate control
file.
\Maex
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