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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 21:21:36 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jmrobins@samurai.ruin.org
Subject:   Re: better than pine?
Message-ID:  <20000516212136.I19309@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:15:11PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net>

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* Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> [000516 20:48] wrote:
> 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?

You can use procmail and mutt, procmail will sort your incoming mail
and mutt will be able to monitor multiple mailboxes for you.

:)

-Alfred


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