Re: filter on From

On 01-12-2019 13:56, Pieter van Oostrum wrote:

> Larry Fahnoe <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:42 AM Geert Stappers wrote:
>> [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.

And that filtering is inside `getmail`?

If yes, please share your filtering config.


Groeten

Geert Stappers