I have a correction to the recipe I sent earlier...
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:31:09PM -0600, Chad '^chewie' Walstrom wrote:
> The recipe I use to launch this is:
>
> # RECIPE BEGINS --
> MONTH=`date +%Y%m`
>
> :0:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> {
>
Here's my setup:
Software
nmh - A set of electronic mail handling programs.
mutt - Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading.
fetchmail-ssl - POP2/3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder (with ssl support)
sendmail - A powerful mail transport agent.
procmail - Versatile
oops sorry this was my comment about disconnected mode imap that started
this ... didn't realise it'd been picked up on.
> Well I'm no expert, but I suspect that "disconnected mode" with IMAP
> means that after IMAP has downloaded all the mail headers, it
> disconnects, allowing the user to perus
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written:
>I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
>to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
Although it doesn't pertain directly to your question, I felt like sharing :)
I used to use mh to filter all the me
Title: RE: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> When I get particularly behind, I just delete a few days (or weeks)
> worth of posts. Debian Weekly News tends to highlight significant list
> events.
Krzys Majewski writes:
>
"Lawrence H. Robins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
> to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
All my mail is handled by a server at my school. On this server, I run
procmail (via ~/.forward and ~/.procmai
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> When I get particularly behind, I just delete a few days (or weeks)
> worth of posts. Debian Weekly News tends to highlight significant list
> events.
What's this? Does it say things like, "This week Krzys Majewski posted
a really stupid question"? Should I be worr
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:20:41PM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
> >I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the remote
> >server you'd just use fetchmail to downlo
I won't say much more that has been said before (actually I wouldn't be
able to say halfof the comments said, he). But, as an ex-Eudora Light user I'll
tell you something that perhaps you'll appreciate a lot. When emptying the
trash (200 messages per day, to say the least) the difference
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:55:54PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote:
> > "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Gary> I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the
> Gary> remote server you'd just use fetchmail to download it, although, I
> Gary> *think*
Title: Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
>I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail
on the remote >server you'd just use fetchmail to
download it, although, I *think* >gnus has it's own
software to download the mail
> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the
Gary> remote server you'd just use fetchmail to download it, although, I
Gary> *think* gnus has it's own software to download the mail if that's
Gary> wha
"Hubert Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam> does it support disconnected mode imap? that is my one big remaining
> Adam> gripe about pine (and as far as i know mutt's imap support is more
> Adam> primitive then pines still).
> You
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> (Not for newbies, but...) I read all of my mail in Gnus, the singing,
>> dancing mail- and newsreader for Emacs. Gnus' view of the world is that
>> everything (including mail groups, mbox files, IMAP folders, ...) is a
>>
"Adam Shand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > (Not for newbies, but...) I read all of my mail in Gnus, the singing,
> > dancing mail- and newsreader for Emacs. Gnus' view of the world is
> > that everything (including mail groups, mbox files, IMAP folders, ...)
> > is a newsgroup, and reacts accor
> (Not for newbies, but...) I read all of my mail in Gnus, the singing,
> dancing mail- and newsreader for Emacs. Gnus' view of the world is
> that everything (including mail groups, mbox files, IMAP folders, ...)
> is a newsgroup, and reacts accordingly.
does it support disconnected mode imap?
Phillip Deackes writes:
> There is a news app, similar to leafnode, which allows fetching of news
> from multiple servers, and also allows you to create a 'local' newsgroup
> from a mailing list.
mailagent can do the latter as well without requiring any particular news
server.
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John Hasler
[EMA
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:23:53 +0100
Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Could you offer a mail2news gateway for home use? I would like to read
> mailing lists through news client but my ISP doesn't provide this.
>
There is a news app, similar to leafnode, which allows fetching of news
from mul
> "kmself" == kmself writes:
kmself> I tend to favor posts by: Ethan Benson (especially when
kmself> he's correcting me), Joey Hess, Sean Perry, and some other
kmself> regulars. I'll save and come back to threads dealing with
kmself> topics I'm interested in.
kmself> If
David Z Maze wrote:
>
> Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FC> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LHR> I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular
> LHR> subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of
> LHR> messages (>250/
David Z Maze writes:
> The big downside of Gnus, of course, is that it's written entirely in
> Emacs-Lisp, and you pretty much need to know elisp moderately well to be
> able to effectively configure it.
I don't think this is true any more. The customization menus take care of
most things, and as
Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FC> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LHR> I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular
LHR> subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of
LHR> messages (>250/day)?
FC>
FC> A mail2news gatewa
On 29 Nov 00 08:23:53 GMT, Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Frank Copeland wrote:
>> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
>> >to this list to deal with the high v
"Lawrence H. Robins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
>to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
I gateway all the debian-* mailing lists I read to local newsgroups,
using a mail-to-news gateway I wrote myself (
Hi!
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Frank Copeland wrote:
> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
> >to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
>
> A mail2news gateway. A dece
On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
>to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
A mail2news gateway. A decent news client is always going to be a
better bet for dealing
Hello Lawrence,
This is a good question. I actually filter the headers, anything to do
with debian-user is put into a special folder. I am using kde and the
latest email client (kmail) has a really nice search feature I'm really
enjoying.
I was a new user, now I'm only a new user. I feel that
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:00:37 -0500
"Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:51:17AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> > I use mutt for my mail client, and exim for my mail transfer agent
> (MTA).
> > I use fetchmail to download my email from my isp to my machine an
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:34:28AM -0500, Lawrence H. Robins ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers to
> this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
> Suppose you only want to see messages with certain keywords in the
>
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:51:17AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> I use mutt for my mail client, and exim for my mail transfer agent (MTA).
> I use fetchmail to download my email from my isp to my machine and
> I look at it locally. I use procmail to pre-sort the email into
> folders (one just f
I use mutt for my mail client, and exim for my mail transfer agent (MTA).
I use fetchmail to download my email from my isp to my machine and
I look at it locally. I use procmail to pre-sort the email into
folders (one just for debian-user) and when I have a question
I bring up the debian-user fo
since i run my own mail servers i have a dedicated account for this
mailing list ..
only downside is when i access it using netscape my From: shows my
normal account which is a pain when people reply..but i need my normal
account to show for my other accounts that i use :/ (and id probably be
happ
I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers
to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)?
Suppose you only want to see messages with certain keywords in the
subject line, or only replies to your questions, and filter out all
the others? Also, is there an
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