primer@math.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer) (01/12/91)
Archive-name: mail/readers/vm/1991-01-10 Archive: ab20.larc.nasa.gov:/pub/vm/vm-5.21.tar.Z [128.155.23.64] Original-posting-by: primer@math.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer) Original-subject: Re: Mail sorter needed Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) 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