Re: hint on handling mail volume: sortmail

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

"Paul Christenson [N3EOP]" <paulc@cyclades.com> writes:

> Could the list maintainer set up the list so that all subject lines
> start with a unique string, such as [DebUser]?  A number of other lists
> I'm on do this; it would make automatic sorting a lot easier.  (Message
> number optional.)

You don't need to do this if you have a decent mail program.  I use
GNUS, and all it takes is:

(setq 
 nnmail-split-methods 
 '(
   ("duplicates"  "^Gnus-Warning:")
   ("debian-private" "^Resent-From: debian-private@lists.debian.org")
   ("debian-devel" "^Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org")
   ("debian-user" "^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org")
   ("debian-bugs" "^Subject: \\(Re: \\)?Bug#[0-9]+:")
   ("executor" "^Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com")
   ("guile" "^Sender: owner-guile@cygnus.com") 
   ("inbox"       "")))

I'm sure procmail, etc. have similar capabilities.

--
Rob