Quoth Ethan Benson,
> I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter
> your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such
> techniques of dealing with several high volume lists)
I'm on a couple of high-volume mailing lists, easily getting over 100
mails a day, and I too faced this problem when I evolved to linux as my
primary platform.
My strategy is that each mailing list I'm on goes into it's own mailbox
(all stored in ~/Mail).
As for tools, I use fetchmail to get my mail from the isp. Fetchmail
delivers directly to maildrop (which is a debian package), which has
rules to deliver different groups to different mailboxes. I have the
following line in my .muttrc file (which will give you an idea of the
number of lists I'm on):
Mailboxes ! =freshmeat =debian-security-announce =debian-weekly-news \
=debian-user =profiling-l =security-focus =antionline \
=debian-announce =funny =uni =stuff =work =damage =cep-discussion \
=behavior_analysis-l =umpanews =criminal_profiling =happyhacker
So whenever maildrop delivers any mail to any mailbox, it lets me know.
I can also use `c <TAB> <TAB>' to get a list of all my mailboxes, with a
tag showing which ones have new mail.
All in all, I find this to be every bit as efficient as anything I have
used in windoze. Many people on this list will probably recoment
procmail or exim .forward files for forwarding. I have never used
either, as I find maildrop does everything I need, but try out a few
things to find out what works for you.
cheers,
damon
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