Re: filter on From
Pieter van Oostrum <[email protected]>
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Larry Fahnoe <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:42 AM Geert Stappers < > [email protected]> 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. >> > > For new implementations I would suggest using sieve rather than procmail. > While procmail worked well, it is not really maintained and thus sites have > moved away from it. Sieve is also much more of a standardized mechanism and > shows up in a number of mail products. In my configuration I use getmail to > feed Dovecot (MDA_external to dovecot-lda) which in turn uses sieve to > perform the filtering functions. I am not familiar with the MultiGuesser > you mention below. > > >> Filtering on mailinglists can be done the `MutliGuesser`, which checks >> on "To:". >> >> >> For my use case is filtering on "From:" enough. Which path should I >> travell? For mailing lists I usually filter on the List-Id: header, or another List-* header if List-Id is not available. Most mailing lists have these nowadays. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4]