Re: filter on From

Scott Robbins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 05:41:36PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The getmail documentation says/hints/suggests to filter the retrieved
> messages with procmail and maildrop. In the mailinglist archive I saw
> that sieve ( http://sieve.info/ ) can be used.
> 
> Filtering on mailinglists can be done the `MutliGuesser`, which checks
> on "To:".

I use To to filter mailing lists. I have a page on mutt that goes through
basic mailfilter syntax if it helps.

I wouldn't use from for a mailing list because in many cases, it just shows
the address of the person sending the question or comment to the mailing
list.

For what it's worth, here's my mutt page. The first part of that section is
dated, from the time when there was no CentOS rpm for maildrop, and is
about building it on CentOS systems (though for CentOS users, Nux will no
longer be maintaining his repo for CentOS-8 but it's probably available in
the rpmfusion or powertools available for CentOS-8.  

Anyway, the latter part of the section goes through simple syntax for a
$HOME/.mailfilter file.  Make sure, by the way, that you give it 700
permissions (600 probably works as well), it cannot be available to group
or other.

The url is
http://srobb.net/mutt.html#filtering

If you're already familiar with using it, then apologies to you and the
list for wasting your time.




> 
> 
> For my use case is filtering on "From:" enough.  Which path should I
> travell?
> 
> The path through `External_MDA` or a  MultiGuesser alike path?
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Geert Stappers
> 
> 
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