From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 20:15:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA0A37B68A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:15:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA78363; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:15:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:15:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jmrobins@samurai.ruin.org Subject: better than pine? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use pine to read all of the mail from this mailing list and the freebsd-ipfw list. Many messages come in and I have not filtered them to another folder. They all go to the Inbox. Does someone have a better way to do this? I do not want to use a pop3 client since I want to access the mail from a telnet window where I can access it from anywhere. But sometimes I get mail that mixes into rest of the list emails and I may not read it and must pass over it as I do not follow each thread. Once nice feature in Netscape mail is that if I do filter mail into a folder, it marks that folder so I know new messages were recently deposited there. Can I do this with procmail and pine so that I can organize my mail and know where I am getting new mail? Is there an existing system? If I cannot find one, I may just create one. I currently use mail.filter (mailfilter) which does not have a feature which will drop mail to a folder based on filter rules. I may add the functionality. Then there is a matter of reporting where the mail goes. (This is email is also going to the author of mailfilter) I can have it update a log which can be used to generate a report with a simple script. It can tell me what filters were used since I last logged in and tell me where mail was routed so I know to check the freebsd-questions folder, for example. I could run that script from the .profile config file. Anyone have any ideas on this? Does pine support a feature like that and I am not aware of it? If I can get this working, I could join many more lists since it would help me keep them organized. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message