Re: sorting out mailinglist

[Andrew Smith <amsmith hempseed com>]

Ian McKellar <imckellar@harvestroad.com.au> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:22:02AM -0500, James Bailie wrote:
> > In message <9901181751.AA23927@sartre.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Sven Grundmann wr
> > ites:
> > 
> > >list i am a bit flooded of the mails . I am using elm . Is there a method
> > >for sorting out the mailinglist mails to read them seperatly cause i dont
> > >want to miss a private mail .
> > 
> > Procmail is the standard tool to do this. The man pages contain examples.
> 
> The rule I use is:
> 
>:0
> * ^X-Mailing-List: <gtk-list@redhat.com>
> gtk
> 
> Ian

If you're separating into groups, you don't need the '[gtk-list]'
label in each subject.  The rule I use to remove this is:

:0
* ^X-Loop: *gtk-list@redhat.com
{
    :0 fh
    | sed 's/^Subject: \[gtk-list\]/Subject:/'

    :0:
    gtk-list
}

Andy

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