Re: Proper Virtual Package Selection for Althea
I investigated the suggestion you provided, and there is one problem with it
for me: I use Maildir to hold my email, and not the mbox format. What solution
is there for me? Otherwise I like it very much.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@kaplowitz.org
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:08:22PM +0000, Frederico S. Mu?oz wrote:
> 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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