Quoting David Fokkema (dfokkema@ileos.nl):
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:13:46AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:29:09PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > > You can use procmail, a very simple yet efficient and very powerful mail
> > > filter. If you use the following rule:
> > >
> > > :0
> > > ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-\/[^@]+
> > > debian-${MATCH}
> >
> > Or if you use ^TO like
> >
> > * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*) ...
> >
> > along with
> >
> > :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> > | formail -D 8192 $HOME/msgid.cache
> >
> > they you you may find those CC's not so annoying, and maybe even nice on
> > very slow responding lists.
>
> I like your last remark! However, I don't grok your last two script
> lines. Care to elaborate on them a bit? I would guess, from man formail,
> that duplicate messages are deleted. Very nice. But how do they get
> delivered in your correct mailboxes? Can you give the complete rule?
> Thanks!
>
Aside from the obvious man pages, there's a really good introduction to
procmail filtering here[1]. The mailing list rules are particularly
good, and I've been using them for about 18 months (or maybe more) with
no problems at all.
hth,
matt
[1] http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/procmail/
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