On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > Forgive my ignorance on this - Since I use Claws, here is
> > something how my current Mail dir looks like (Claws uses MH, in
> > #HOME/Mail)
> >
> > $HOME
> > Mail
> > inbox
> > Fedora
> > Fedora-DS
> > CentOS
> > Ubuntu
> > Etc, etc, etc
> >
> > I can certainly pull mail from my ISP without issues, I'm unsure how
> > to now seperate them into the above while preserving the many emails
> > that currently live in the above dirs.
> >
> > Again - pardon my ignorance on this - I hope I gave you a clear
> > image.
>
> I think that a tool like procmail or maildrop are what you want to
> look into. I use fetchmail to grab mail from a POP account and
> procmail to filter it into various folders. I'm using maildir as the
> mailbox format, but AFAIK, procmail will work with MH in much the same
> way.
>
> Hit google for many tutorials on procmail. One thing that's very nice
> is being able to use regular expressions in the filtering process. So
> you could have one rule that would filter all of the list that use the
> List-Id header with something like this (which may well look
> unintelligeble without having read the procmail manpages :):
>
> # filter list mail
> :0
> * ^List-Id: +\/.*
> {
> LISTID=$MATCH
>
> :0
> * LISTID ?? ^.*[<]\/[^@>\.]*
> lists/$MATCH/
>
> :0
> * LISTID ?? ^ *\/[^@\.]*
> lists/$MATCH/
> }
>
> With a rule like that, this list ends up in lists/fedora-list. The
> nice part is that when you subscribe to new lists you don't have to
> add yet another rule that is almost identical to many others. Of
> course, if you have problmatic lists or lists you want to save in
> places other than where this recipe would put them, you can just add
> those rules before this one.
>
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>
Thanks Todd - I'll look into this a bit more this evening.
I feel I have enough to really get this knocked out now.
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Chris
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