On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:58:52AM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:48:24PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Hi Jimmy!
> >
> >
> > > but I don't have the time right now to remember how to write a procmail recipe
> > > to filter out the list into a separate folder to prevent my inbox from getting
> > > too large. (Any help on this would be appreciated as well.)
>
> No doubt this will spark a large rash of emails helping. I may as well
> get in while I can.
Ehe, indeed ;)
>
> > This will put all mail from debian-devel into a mailbox "Debian" (in the
> > default maildir):
> >
> > :0
> > * ^x-loop:.*debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > debian
> >
>
> A slight more generic one is:
>
>
> :0
> * ^((List-Id|X-(Mailing-)?List):(.*[<]\/[^>]*))
> {
> LISTID=$MATCH
>
> # all Debian things ...
> :0:
> * LISTID ?? debian-\/[^@.]*
> where/to/store/Debian/$MATCH
> }
>
> Which you can then make use of if you happen to subscribe to other mailing
> lists which contain list-id (most) or x-mailing-list (a few).
This solution is very good; I just want to add that there is a *very
good* solution made by Edward Betts that comes with the devscripts
package; inside /usr/share/doc/devscripts/examples one can find the
.forward files for sendmail and exim and a wonderfull
debian.procmail.gz that is ready for immediate deployment; one just
needs to subscribe to the lists, it automagically creates a folder
inside a debian dir (e.g. debian/devel, debian/user, etc.).
The nice thing is that I have lost some time looking at it and I now
know some pretty handy things about making the rules, but there is no
real need to; it works out-of-the-box.
Just thought I should bring this up, because I see many requests on
procmail filters for debian lists and this one is very easy to install
and his already made (and only an 'apt-get install devscripts' away).
Best Regards,
fsm
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