(long winded reply, sorry) On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, charles verge wrote:
Procmail can do it but that is before the client is run, netscape can delete a thread, nmh, exmh and tkrat can select multiple messages that can then be deleted. This isn't an exhaustive list of course. Sorry as for nmh it is diffucult to learn. tkrat is X based and tcl , exmh I never like and it is X based. Netscape is X based too.
I am looking for a simple feature that I do not want rewrite another mail client to handle this. These are all the mail clients I could petty much find.
I just want to beable to delete and block all emails with the same subject with a few keys.
I recently had the same need. I used to use slackware and popclient to fetch my mail. Now that I am using SuSE, I am using the newer fetchmail. I find the traffic on this list a little heavy at times and it was overwelming my incoming email. I had to find an easy way to send the SuSE specific mail to a folder to review later. I started to research mail filtering. On my system, the way fetchmail works by default (no rc file, just invoked from the command line fetchmail -u username mailservername) is that it gets my mail and hands it off to the local deliver agent. On my system at least, the default delivery agent is procmail. I use pine as my mail reader. Check out your /etc/sendmail.cfg file and look for a line like these to see if you are set up to use procmail by default for local delivery (this is likely): (output of grep procmail /etc/sendmail.cfg) ##### @(#)local_procmail.m4 8.6 (Berkeley) 10/20/96 ##### Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40, A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u ##### @(#)procmail.m4 8.6 (Berkeley) 4/30/97 ##### Mprocmail, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=DFMSPhnu9, S=11/31, R=21/31, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=procmail -Y -m $h $f $u This made life simple for me. Procmail is well documented as a filter. It took longer to read the faqs then it did to implement. I found it easy to understand the docs and VERY easy to implement. It works well. I suggest reading the mail filter faq available at: rtfm.mit.edu/mail/answers/mail/filtering-faq What I did ( to boil it down) was this, create a .procmailrc file in my home dir that looked like this: ##################### # created 12-12-98 # by david #################### #################### # revised: # ################### ################### #Set some variables ################### VERBOSE=on PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail LOGFILE=#MAILDIR/from # Directory for storing procmail lock files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists ###################### # end variable setup ###################### Next I created the directory refrenced in the rc file (.procmail). Finally, I created my rules for filtering the mail ~/.procmail/rc.maillists (procmail calls them recipes). Since I wanted all my SuSe mail list to go to a sepparate file, I created the filter below: ################ :0 * ^Subject:.*SuSE suse ################## This sends all mail with SuSE in the subject to a mail folder suse. I hope this helps and remember Your Mileage May Vary, so read the docs and go slow. David - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>