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[Ken A]

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:
> 
>>
>> I don't understand why people think they can only filter on the 
>> subject line? Surely you keep your list mail in separate mailboxes? I 
>> hate to think what I would do if it all landed  in my Inbox!
> 
> Julian,
>    I use procmail to filter out stuff I don't really need to see, like
> {Spam?}, and Netbackup reports, and some other system reporting.  But
> I *do* want to see MailScanner msgs.  I would just like a quick way
> to differentiate the mailscanner list from the mailscanner-beta list.
> They look a lot alike at first glance.  BTW, my email client is Pine
> on UNIX, my favorite editor is vi, I would probably drive a Yugo if they 
> were still around...

Filtering on 'To or cc' in Thunderbird works good. It manages 100+ 
folders, and a few hundred thousand messages, 20 lists or so, sorted 
into various archive folders by year, about 100 message filter rules, 
plus a few dozen rss feeds and a couple newsgroups.

I still use Pine too, for remote access when I'm on a slow link, since 
the server here is pop3, it saves me having to download tons of mail 
from a remote location or use some webmail client. I've never spent much 
time trying to get Pine to really handle my mail though.

Ken A
Pacific.Net


> Jeff Earickson