> I want to presort my email messages. > Can you recommend a way to do it (procmail ? exmh capabilities for this task, > if it got any ? other ?). Is the proposed way a popular one ? Is there a > HOWTO, or similar staff, that explain how to do it ?
Choose the Preferences/Incorporate Mail menu option and then change to "presort" and SAVE. Then create a .maildelivery file in your home directory to tell it how to sort. The program that actually does this is slocal, so do a "man slocal" to find out more. Make sure you do a chmod of the .maildelivery file so that only you can access it, otherwise it won't work. Ie, do chmod go-rw .maildelivery The "man slocal" will tell you the format for the .maildelivery file, but here's a sample: # # .maildelivery file for nmh's slocal # # Blank lines and lines beginning with a '#' # are ignored. # # FIELD PATTERN ACTION RESULT STRING # >From "John Brown" + ? academia/adelaide >From "Sue Blue" + ? admin/cssip >From Linux-Announce + ? comp/linux/announce X-mailing-list debian-announce + ? comp/linux/deb-announce Cc debian-user + ? comp/linux/deb-user >From "debian-user" + ? comp/linux/deb-user To "debian-user" + ? comp/linux/deb-user X-mailing-list debian-user + ? comp/linux/deb-user Cc exmh-users + ? comp/linux/exmh-users >From exmh-users + ? comp/linux/exmh-users To exmh-users + ? comp/linux/exmh-users >From "Bill Gates" + ? personal/friends Subject Cron + ? sysadm default - + ? inbox _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"