Re: mailsorting with mutt

[Patrick Colbeck <pat.colbeck@esc.azlan.co.uk>]

On Sat Jan 30, 1999 at 08:19:13AM +1100, cooking@surfnetcity.com.au wrote:
> G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists i'm using mutt and sifting through my mail manually is now quite a chore i would like to sort them ie: deb-user'luv'etc into there own mailbox when fetching mail perhaps a copy of a .m
> uttrc might be helpfull for the commands?? anyhow any help would be greatfully appreciated i uuse smail and fetchmail is the command i use to retrieve mail Thanks for your time:-)
>   
>    Craig McVean..........
> 
> 
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I use the same combination but use procmail to sort the mail into different
mailboxes.

Under my user area i have the following diectory structure

.mutt - contains muttrc and aliases files
.procmail - contains procmail recepies
Mail\spool
Mail\current

OK first you need a .procmailrc something like this:-

#Set on when debugging
VERBOSE=off
 
#Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail)
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
     
#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
     
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.else


And a .forward file thus:-

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #yourusername"

Next lets look at the recipies in the .procmail directory, first the
rc.maillists:-

:0:
* ^(Resent-)?Sender: (owner-)?mutt-users(-request)?@mutt.org
* $ !^(To|Cc|From):.*$pat.colbeck
spool/Mutt

:0:
* ^(Resent-)?Sender: (owner-)?debian-user(-request)?@lists.debian.org
* $ !^(To|Cc|From):.*$pat.colbeck
spool/Debian

:0:
* ^(Resent-)?Sender: (owner-)?majordom-wmaker-owner(-request)?@linuxcenter.com
* $ !^(To|Cc|From):.*$pat.colbeck
spool/WindowMaker

:0:
* ^(Resent-)?Sender: (owner-)?oldtools(-request)?@listserv.law.cornell.edu
* $ !^(To|Cc|From):.*$pat.colbeck
spool/Old-Tools

:0:
* ^(Resent-)?Sender: (owner-)?gnome-list(-request)?@gnome.org
* $ !^(To|Cc|From):.*$pat.colbeck
spool/Gnome

:0:
* ^To: .*playground.sun.com
spool/LandRover

:0:
* ^To: .*playground.sun.com
spool/LandRover

This delivers all mail from the maillists to ~/Mail/spool/"maillistname"
My posix expresion programing is not the best and the occasional mail missed
thes filters and gets dropped in my inbox so check them yourself.

Next we have the recipie rc.else which should catch anything not matched by
rc.maillists

:0:
* ^From: .*cisco.com
spool/Cisco

:0:
* ^From: .*
spool/INBOX

OK now we have all the mail in different spool directories under ~/Mail/spool
I like to have it like that incoming to a spool directory and the automove
it to a current directory as I read it. This lets me use V< under Xemacs as
well if I feel that way inclined (not often these days).

Here is my .muttrc which is just a link the real muttrc under ~/.mutt

########################################################################################
#
# This rc file just sources the real one in .mutt
#
########################################################################################

source ~/.mutt/muttrc

Now for the relevent parts of my muttrc

###############################################################################
#
# Pat's Muttrc
# Nothing goes in if I dont know what it does.
#
###############################################################################

reset all		# reset all variables to system defaults.

set move=yes		# Move mail-spool to $mbox?

#
# Paths:
# ("unset" implies the compile time defaults)
#

set folder=~/Mail	# where are the mailboxes (+ and = are shortcuts)

#
# Mailinglists:
#

lists rro uk-lro oldtools gnome-list wmaker debian-user

#
# mailboxes filename [ filename ... ]
# (check the files for new mails.  Space cycles between them)
#

mailboxes +spool/INBOX +spool/Cisco +spool/WindowMaker \
          +spool/Gnome +spool/Mutt +spool/LandRover +spool/Old-Tools \
          +spool/Debian
	  mbox-hook +spool/INBOX +current/INBOX
	  mbox-hook +spool/WindowMaker +current/WindowMaker
	  mbox-hook +spool/Cisco +current/Cisco
	  mbox-hook +spool/LandRover +current/LandRover
	  mbox-hook +spool/Mutt +current/Mutt
	  mbox-hook +spool/Mutt +current/Mutt
	  mbox-hook +spool/Gnome +current/Gnome
	  mbox-hook +spool/Old-Tools +current/Old-Tools
	  mbox-hook +spool/Debian +current/Debian
	  


#
# Aliases:
# (called in ~/.muttrc to load them only once)
#

set alias_file=~/.mutt/aliases		# add the Aliases here
source ~/.mutt/aliases			# and include all existing aliases


Well I hope this clears things up a bit for you.

Pat

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 Patrick Colbeck 	  email: pat.colbeck@esc.azlan.co.uk          
 Senior Analyst            tel:  you dont seriously expect me to 
 Azlan Ltd                       give that out on the internet do you ?
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