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From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: pine and filters.
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:59:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021005225928.GB18305@rednote.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c26b36$8282a040$51facdd4@nektarios>

You would use procmail to automatically sort your mail as you direct by the rules you supply in procmail "recipie"
files, as they're called in procmail. It's a very powerful agent and works perfectly well, in my experience. In fact,
procmail is the program that actually delivers mail on Red Hat systems by default. In other words, sendmail is used to
send outbound mail, and fetchmail to retrieve mail, and procmail to deliver it to users on the local system.

Pine is a very capable program, and supports things like hyperlinks and opening mime types like .wav files, if you have
the correct mailcap entries. However, it requires too many keystrokes, for my taste, for the task of deleting message
threads. Consequently, I have recently been using mutt, where this can be done with just two keystrokes.

Nektarios Mallas writes:
> From: "Nektarios Mallas" <nmallas@otenet.gr>
> 
> Hi listers.
> I would like to switch my email completely over to Linux but I have the
> following questions.
> Is it possible with the pine program to create different folders for my
> lists and have pine deliver my messages appropriately?
> Is there any way in pine to view my messages aranged by subject and then
> delete an entire subject if I don't want to read it? For example, right now
> in outlook, I may recieve a thred on a list with the subject line "linux is
> the best, windows is garbage." On this subject there may be let's say 15
> messages. Since I am tired of topics like this, in outlook, if I have my
> messages sorted by conversation I can simply press delete on this subject
> and all 15 messages are gone with a key stroke. Can I do something similar
> with pine? If not, is there any other program that will do this?
> Thanks for any help.
> Regards.
> Nektarios.
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Nektarios Mallas
 ` cstrobel
   ` ddunfee..
     ` cstrobel
     ` Luke Davis
   ` Jude DaShiell
 ` David Csercsics
   ` Nektarios Mallas
     ` David Csercsics
     ` Gil Andre
     ` Nicolas Pitre
     ` Luke Davis
 ` Sacha Chua
   ` John
     ` Luke Davis
       ` John
         ` Luke Davis
 ` Gil Andre
 ` Jude DaShiell
 ` Janina Sajka [this message]
   ` Jude DaShiell

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