Re: [Sheflug] mail strategies

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> Too confusing. I know pine. :)

Ah, you probably know netscape, too?  Haven't tried it, but you could
use one of the HTML-izing threading archiver programs to put all your
mail into an archive as if it were a mailing list.
 
    Will> I think I'll have a look at procmail (shudder)

procmail isn't hard to use as a pure mail splitter; you just have to
avoid being lazy (eg, if you just use "^TOsheflug" to split out sheflug
ml traffic, then personal mail from Richard will end up mixed in with
the ml folder if he writes from his sheflug address).

    Will> or maybe roll something of my own in Python. (It's such a
    Will> nice language, I'll have to use it some day :)

It's a hard problem; that's why programs like procmail have so many
options and configurations.


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