Wednesday, June 12

Google Search: And if you're really interested in a rule set for Mail, and you're not

afraid of traditional unix tools, there's always procmail sorting.



what you'll need:



1) install procmail (may require you to drop to the CLI, I don't know of

Mac OS X comes with it, or if there's already a procmail package out there)



2) install the mail tools package (might not be out for X yet ... but it

was a common download for Nextstep, Openstep, and was available on Rhapsody

and X Server) -- this allows you to append files to mail spools, so you can

have procmail deliver to your individual mail folders, bypassing the Mail

rules engine. Once the package is ported to X, it'll be a package install

and wont require CLI.



3) edit your .forward to invoke procmail, and create a .procmailrc with

your rules (full regexp matching! capacity for a very rich and complex set

of rules). Neither of these steps requires CLI, just a text file editor

(like TextEdit).

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