[TriLUG] Filtering mail

[Dave Sorenson]

Brilliant!!

Cristobal Palmer wrote:

>I keep getting messages that are labeled "OT:" in the subject line,
>but I don't want to read them. How do I get rid of them without having
>to hit the delete key every time?
>
>I tried setting up a rule in Pine, which took about 30 seconds, but
>then I decided I don't like Pine because it isn't really Open Source.
>The same was true for my gmail webmail account. It took me almost a
>full two minutes to do the same in mutt on my laptop (I hadn't done it
>before), but since I really don't use mutt that often I figure I
>needed to set it up elsewhere. I even managed it on my... ::grits
>teeth:: ... MS Outlook at work, but I _really_ don't like outlook.
>
>So I guess my question is actually: "Which of the many ways of easily
>filtering out subject lines with 'OT:' in them is best?"
>
>Has anybody had a particularly good experience setting up filters for
>personal email?
>
>-CMP
>
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>Cristobal M. Palmer
>UNC-CH SILS Student
>cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
>cmpalmer at ils.unc.edu
>ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
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