Re: Rmail tips

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Ben Hancock <ben@benghancock.com> writes:

    > Fernando de Morais <fernandodemorais.jf@gmail.com> writes:
    >> I believe this answer is long overdue and now, after a few months
    >> of use, you should have already configured RMAIL to suit your
    >> needs.
    >> 
    >> However, here are some recommendations for things that were
    >> helpful to me when using RMAIL:

    > Thanks for your kind reply and these helpful snippets, Fernando. I
    > just recently started using Mairix, which has been great.

    > The one thing I still haven't found the optimal approach for in
    > RMAIL is filtering mails into dedicated mailboxes -- for example,
    > for high-volume mailing lists, that I may want to keep out of my
    > regular RMAIL inbox.

    > I've tried using the rmail-automatic-folder-directives variable to
    > handle this, but it has the downside that mails are marked as seen
    > when they are filed away; they also still land in the main RMAIL
    > file first.

    > My MTA (maildrop) of course can put incoming mails into specific
    > files based on conditions. But if I just visit those files with
    > RMAIL, i.e. by using the 'i' command, there is also no distinction
    > between what is old and what is unseen. It seems that I would have
    > to configure those files as separate _inboxes_, and fetch mail
    > from them into another RMAIL file.

    > That's doable, but I'm wondering if there's another way ... or if
    > I should abandon filtering altogether and just search?

I filter incoming mail by means of procmail and then read the mailboxes
using "rmail-input". This might be too simple for what you want, of
course.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.