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Re: Cypher:Subject naming- SUMMARY
Ok, here's a summary of replies regarding sorting of mail by To: fields,
or more in general, grouping all list mail together by mailing list.
Thanx to all who responded. As you can see, there are a variety of ways
to approach this problem.
All of these replys were posted to Cypherpunks already, so re-posting
is kosher.
I've cut out the extra header stuff and the PGP signatures, and edited
the messages for brevity.
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From: [email protected] (Chael Hall)
Subject: Re: Cypher: Subject naming proposal
To: [email protected] (Jim C)
Cc: [email protected]
>Can I suggest that any messages posted to cypherpunks start with "Cypher:"
>in the subject line? The mail from this list is getting mixed in with all
>my other mail, cause my newsreader (elm) can't sort on "To:" fields.
> Does anyone else have this problem? Does this idea seem reasonable?
>JIm C.
I use the following .forward file to make slocal "sort" my mail based
upon the contents of the .maildelivery file below.
-- $HOME/.forward --
| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user nowhere
<EOF>
You should use something like the following .maildelivery file to
tell slocal where to put the messages.
-- $HOME/.maildelivery --
#
# field "pattern" action "command"
#
To "[email protected]" file ? Mail/cypherpunks
This will file messages directed to cypherpunks to a file in your
Elm mail directory, but leave all other messages untouched. You have
to then choose the folder "=cypherpunks" to read those messages.
NOTE: You need to change the path of slocal to the appropriate
path for your system. You can find it with the whereis -b command or
the find utility. Am I forgetting anything?
Chael Hall
--
Chael Hall
[email protected], [email protected]
(317) 285-3648 after 5 pm EST
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From: Crys Rides <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cypher: Subject naming proposal
>>>>> On Thu, 18 Mar 93 10:39:46 EST, [email protected] (Chael Hall) said:
Hall> I use the following .forward file to make slocal "sort" my mail based
Hall> upon the contents of the .maildelivery file below.
[snip]
Hall> NOTE: You need to change the path of slocal to the appropriate
Hall> path for your system. You can find it with the whereis -b command or
Hall> the find utility. Am I forgetting anything?
Erm, only that this apparently appears to pretty much _require_ switching
mailreaders to MH. A more transparent solution can be achieved with the
'procmail' package, available from any comp.sources.misc archive. This
package allows rule-based filtering on message content, size, and other
factors, and can be installed workably with most mailreaders to my
knowledge, without requiring much effort.
Crys Rides
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From [email protected] Thu Mar 18 13:: Cypher: Subject naming propos
al
There's a program called "filter" (which I think is part of the elm
distribution) that I use to automatically route messages from different
mailing lists to separate folders, which can then be read at leisure.
Very handy!
derek
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To: Brad Huntting <[email protected]>, Jim C <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cypher: Subject naming proposal
Cc: [email protected]
mush will also allow filtering based on more or less whatever
you want (e.g. To: fields).
Mark
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Mark Henderson
[email protected]