Sorting email - procmail ?

Alan Jackson ajackson
Tue Dec 21 21:24:14 PST 2004


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:46:53 -0600
Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp.com> wrote:

> I need to sort my incoming email. I just need something simple to check To: 
> and Cc: lines and move to a folder based on that.
> 
> Is procmail the thing to use?
> 
> (It seems really complexicated. Is there anything simpler?)
> 

I use procmail just to deliver mail to a directory so I can run my
1000 line perl script on it... 8-)

Some e-mail clients will do sorting for you based on simple stuff like
To: lines - Sylpheed for example. Which is now at version 0.9.99 and just days
away from version 1.0!


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