Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>]

* Eric Brooks (eric@dimension11.net) wrote:
> Hi.  I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that 
> messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail 
> spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out
> from the general mail stream. Right now all my mail goes to 'mbox' -- I
> would like the debian-user mail to go to ~/.mutt/debian-user.
> 
> I set up mbox-hook records in my mutt environment as follows:
> 
> mbox-hook debian-user@lists.debian.org ~/.mutt/debian-user
> 
> I am not an Emacs user much, I use vi more, and I'm not that familiar
> with the 'hook' idea, so I am not sure I'm understanding the effect that
> I should expect from the mbox-hook record correctly. Should the
> mbox-hook command have the effect I describe above?  If so, is there
> something obvious I'm missing in the syntax above?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Eric
> 
> -- 
> Eric Brooks				    eric@dimension11.net


 Eric,
 
 Do you have any particular reservations agains procmail? It'll do what
you need beautifully. Then you can read your lists in their respective
folders and tell mutt to notify you when there are new messages in them.

???

 Alex.