mutt and mailing lists

[Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)]

Michael V. De Palatis:

> For reasons that are unknowable even to myself, I use mutt as my email
> client. However, thus far I haven't been able to figure out exactly
> how to have particular messages placed into a specific mailbox. In
> particular, I would like to place messages from high traffic mailing
> lists into list-specific mailboxes.

Use procmail; I have the following in mine ~/.procmailrc:



:0
* ^Delivered-To: mailing list \/[a-z0-9_+-]+
lists/$MATCH/

:0
* ^List-Id: .*<\/[a-z0-9_+-]+
lists/$MATCH/

:0
* ^List-Id: \/[a-z0-9_+-]+
lists/$MATCH/



(I’m also wondering whether this couldn’t be rewritten into one rule.)

-- Shot
-- 
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