Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

[Joseph Zaino <joseph.zaino@verizon.net>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:31:36PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg (lists@stosberg.net) wrote:
>  
>
> > J?rgen A.Erhard wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > What I'm looking for is a way to tell a mail filtering tool how to
> > > automatically sort mails from mailing lists.
> > >      
> > Just two days ago Sascha Andres has announced on suse-linux@suse.com
> > that he started to host a list of procmail recipes for mailing
> > lists.  At the moment there are only about ten recipes listed, but
> > with our contributions it will probably soon be more.
> >
> > Find the annoncement at
> > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2003-Jun/0207.html
> >
> > And the list (in German) itself at:
> > http://procmail.livingit.de/
> >    
>
> Nick Moffitt of Crackmonkey has a set of filters which I tried locating
> a few days ago, didn't turn it up though a bit of Googling might.
>
> Peace.
>
>  
I just read a good Exim+Courier+Debian HOWTO I found at 
http://www.debianplanet.com. The direct link is:

http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml

Once exim's set up(I was previously using procmail) you set up a simple 
.forward file in your home directory and use it to direct your emails to 
folders under you main maildir. Some info on exim filter specifications 
can be found at:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.00/doc/html/filter_toc.html

I've set mine up with:

# Exim filter
if $return_path: contains "debian-user" then save Maildir/.debuser/new/
elif $return_path: contains "debian-laptop" then save Maildir/.deblap/new/
endif

Works like a charm so far.

Joe