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To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Victor A. Sudakov wrote:

> Randy Katz wrote:
> 
> > You can even specify that if it's from so&so (specifically) that it gets 
> > treated a certain way. It's all in procmail...little complicated but once 
> > it's working and you understand the syntax it's *REAL COOL*.
> 
> I would be very grateful if you or somebody else could post here his/her
> .procmailrc file tweaked for the freebsd mailing lists. It is always
> difficult to start. Now I use the elm filter that looks less scary.
> 
> And another question. When you use procmail, does the .forward file really
> have to be so complicated as described in the manual? Why cannot it be
> simple something like
> 
> "|/usr/local/bin/procmail"
>
I'm a bit scared of the scripts that were recommended to me, I figured
I would go slow and automate as I felt more confident. I use pine and
decided to keep my incoming in usr/home/$USER/inbox because I want to
make sure I read it all anyways. Then I enabled the pipe command in
setup-config [ [X]  enable-unix-pipe-cmd ] after reading mail I <|>
and it comes up:
--
Pipe message `#' to :[]
^G Help                   ^W Raw Text   ^R With Delimiter
^C Cancel   Ret Accept    ^Y Free Output
--
I ^R, and then procmail(only needs to be done the first time)<ENTER>
and delete to move to the next one. 

I know It's not as automated as it can be but, control freak that I
am, I prefer it :)

[.. .procmailrc ..] 
#Set on when debugging
VERBOSE=off

#Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail)
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail

LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists


[.. .procmail/rc.maillists ..]

[.. clip ..]

:0:
* ^Sender:.*owner-questions@freebsd.org
IN.freebsd-questions

[.. /clip ..]

ps it took me a while to figure out to use the Sender: field to have a
consistant string to sort by. I have them turned on in the reader just
for my own paranoia :)

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