dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) (01/10/91)
System: Sun4/260, SunOS4.0.3
I receive e-mail daily from a couple dozen machines. I then
manually sort the mail into the appropiate mail folders
(~dcox/mail/machine1_messages, ~dcox/mail/machine2_messages, etc).
The mail is always from the same machines, and it always goes
into the same folders. Is there a script or program that will
sort this mail for me?
Thanks much.
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Don Cox
Phone (716) 253-7121 KMX (716) 253-7998
INTERNET dcox@ssd.kodak.comDan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (01/10/91)
>>>>> On 9 Jan 91 22:08:54 GMT, dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) said:
Don> manually sort the mail into the appropiate mail folders
[...]
Don> The mail is always from the same machines, and it always goes
Don> into the same folders. Is there a script or program that will
Don> sort this mail for me?
Why don't you "get on the bandwagon" with GNU Emacs/VM mailer... more
info is avaiable from info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net, _not_ me.
Naturally, I'm not sure if it does what you want, but it's free &
groovy... here's part of its manual:
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File: vm Node: Grouping Messages, Prev: Undoing, Up: Top, Next: Reading Digests
Grouping Messages
*****************
In order to make numerous related messages easier to cope with, VM
provides the command `G' (`vm-group-messages'), which groups all message
in a folder according to some criterion. "Grouping" causes messages
that are related in some way to be presented consecutively. The actual
order of the folder is not altered; the messages are simply numbered and
presented differently. Grouping should not be confused with sorting;
grouping only moves messages that occur later in the folder backward to
"clump" with other related messages.
The grouping criteria currently supported are:
`subject'
Messages with the same subject (ignoring "Re:" prefixes) are grouped
together.
`author'
Messages with the same author are grouped together.
`date-sent'
Messages sent on the same day are grouped together.
`arrival-time'
Message presentation reverts to arrival time ordering (the default).
If the variable `vm-group-by' has a non-`nil' value it specifies the
default grouping that will be used for all folders. So if you like
having your mail presented to you grouped by subject, then put `(setq
vm-group-by "subject")' in your `.emacs' file to get this behavior.
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Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364primer@math.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer) (01/11/91)
In article <DANJ1.91Jan9182908@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, Dan Jacobson writes: >>>>>> On 9 Jan 91 22:08:54 GMT, dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) said: >Don> manually sort the mail into the appropiate mail folders > [...] >Don> The mail is always from the same machines, and it always goes >Don> into the same folders. Is there a script or program that will >Don> sort this mail for me? > Why don't you "get on the bandwagon" with GNU Emacs/VM mailer... more > info is avaiable from info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net, _not_ me. Dan goes on to mention that VM has a powerful message grouping facility which allows to control the order in which messages in your folders are presented to you. He neglects to point out that VM also has an auto-archive feature which sorts mail, whenever you request it, into folders based on regular expression matching of specific subject fields. The current official distribution version of VM is 4.41, which is available by anonymous ftp as tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/vm-4.41.tar.Z The beta test VM version 5 is available by anonymous ftp as ab20.larc.nasa.gov:/pub/vm/vm-5.21.tar.Z (where .21 is liable to increase) The author is Kyle Jones. I do not speak for him in any way and I bear full responsibility (moral but not legal) for any mistakes in this message. I used VM 4.41, which was good, but I much prefer VM 5. Both have the wonderful feature of leaving your mail in Unix mail format and using the same one-letter commands as BSD Mail. Anyone using the beta test version ought to subscribe to the relevant mailing list by writing to bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Like Dan before me, I'd prefer not to provide any further information on VM. -- Jeremy Primer, Department of Mathematics, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 primer@math.harvard.edu ...!harvard!zariski!primer primer@huma1.bitnet
ziegast@eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast) (01/11/91)
Dan Jacobson writes: >Don Cox said: >Don> manually sort the mail into the appropiate mail folders > [...] >Don> The mail is always from the same machines, and it always goes >Don> into the same folders. Is there a script or program that will >Don> sort this mail for me? > > Why don't you "get on the bandwagon" with GNU Emacs/VM mailer... more > info is avaiable from info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net, _not_ me. If you have MH, there is a mail filter command which, when put in your .forward file, will perform actions on incoming messages depending on their header info. The actions which you can perform are: pipe to a command executed by sh file into a UUCP file folder throw it away With a small patch I've made, it files the message into a UCB Mail folder. The best part about it is that you don't have to jump onto anyone's bandwagon. Use BSD Mail, GNU emacs mail, MH or whatever. If you have MH, it's described in the mhook(1) man page. If not . . . #ifdef INTERESTED_IN_MH MH itself is a complete package which supports MMDF (I&II), Sendmail, SMTP, and UUCP message transfer agents. From composing to sending mail, MH has a variety of independent programs for processing mail messages. It also provides support for POP (2&3), NNTP and Bulletin Boards. It even has its own X interface (xmh - available in MIT contrib source). You can get source from anonymous ftp at ics.uci.edu. A newsgroup/mailing- list is available for MH support (comp.mail.mh). #endif If you want more details, you (or anyone else) can mail me. ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)