[TriLUG] Filtering mail

[Joseph Tate]

I've controlled my own mail server for the past 5 years, and use
procmail server side to filter e-mail.  If you don't control your mail
server, you may still have procmail available to you if you have a
*nix login.  Run 'man procmailrc' or google for sample recipe files.

For client side filtering, thunderbird works across Linux and Windows,
and filters reasonably well.

On 9/26/05, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> 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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