Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

RenX99 <renx99@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt
>set up to recieve my email.  The MTA I have running is exim
>and I am fetching mail with fetchmail.  
>
>Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it 
>into different folders but I am having problems figuring it out.

If you're using exim, try its built-in filter files. They're described
in /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz, and are really quite easy to use
(much more so than procmail, I found).

My .forward file, with a lot of stuff cut out of the middle for clarity,
looks like this:

# Exim filter

# Catchall for bounce messages
if error_message then finish endif

# root and news/usenet go to separate mailboxes
if $h_to: contains root@riva.ucam.org then
  save $home/mail/root-inbox
elif $h_to: contains news@riva.ucam.org or
     $h_to: contains usenet@riva.ucam.org or
     $h_subject: BEGINS "riva daily usenet report" then
  save $home/mail/news-inbox

# Debian mailing lists. Try to be robust-ish here ...
elif $h_x-mailing-list contains "@lists.debian.org" then
  pipe "/usr/bin/mailtonews"

[...]

endif

# Otherwise save to the main inbox
if not delivered then
  save $home/mail/inbox
endif

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]