"Matthew Sackman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I would love to know of the details in the .fetchmailrc file of anyone
> who
> is successfully selecting emails for themselves that are part of a
> mailing
> list (or any other information that could help!).
OK Matthew - I subscribe to a number of mailing lists. Fetchmail just
collects all the mail from my ISP's mailserver using POP3. The mail is
then passed on to Exim which sorts it into folders on my system. The
important file here is the ~/.forward:
# Exim filter <<== do not edit or remove this line!
if error_message then finish endif
logfile $home/eximfilter.log
if $h_To: contains "sah1"
then deliver scott
elif $h_x-mailing-list matches "^<debian-(.*)@lists\\.debian\\.org>"
then save $home/Mail/Debian
elif $h_subject: contains "RM-Networks"
then save $home/Mail/School
elif $h_subject: contains "seul-edu"
then save $home/Mail/SuSE
elif $h_To: contains "palm-talk"
then save $home/Mail/PT
elif $h_subject: contains "SLU"
then save $home/Mail/Storm
elif $h_subject: contains "AWL:"
then save $home/Mail/AW
elif $h_subject: contains "dvduk"
then save $home/Mail/DVD
elif $h_subject: contains "Debian-uk"
then save $home/Mail/Debian
elif $h_subject: contains "suse-linux-uk-schools"
then save $home/Mail/SuSE
elif $h_subject: contains "[leicester]"
then save $home/Mail/Debian
elif $h_subject: contains "Pilot-Unix"
then save $home/Mail/Pilot-Unix
elif $h_subject: contains "northants"
then save $home/Mail/Debian
endif
As you can see, many mailing lists insert a comment in the subject line
- AWL is the Applixware mailing list. All messages from this list have a
subject line which begins [AWL] making them easy to sort.
The Debian list messages are all caught by the x-mailing-list header and
the rather complicated formula I got from this group.
Examine the mailing list headers carefully - there is nearly always
something unique in the header. If not, have a couple of filters for
each list.
Note that the first recipe delivers mail for another user on my system
which arrives in my mailbox.
Hope this helps - though if you don't use Exim it won't!!!!
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux
