Re: Threading Mail

[Kieren Diment <kieren@mailandnews.com>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:58:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2001.12.26.2100 +0100]:
> > I recommend just using fetchmail intstead and having exim or procmail
> > sort the mail into folders for you.  The advantage of using
> > fetchmail+exim/procmail is that you can switch mailers all you want
> > and are not dependent on a given mailer's POP/IMAP and filter/sort
> > capabilities.  All they need is the ability to read a local folder.
> 
> yes, but you also need to learn a lot more software. while mutt
> already has quite a learning curve, fetchmail may be easy, exim
> moderate, but procmail (especially the debugging) can be quite a drag.
> easier if you can just rely on mutt...

try :

$prompt> less /usr/doc/procmail/QuickStart

Worked for me.  Up and running in 5 minutes.