Re: POLL: how do you sort your inbox ?

Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is a basic question, but I am used to rmail and until now, I
> tried as much as possible to keep every mail into my inbox (unique
> file).
> 
> With mh, things change and I am facing a dilemna: how to sort my
> mails.
> 
> How do you do ? Do you make separation between lists -i.e. you create
> a MH folder for each mailing list - and other mails ? What is supposed
> to work best ?  If I separate my mails, how will I be informed of any
> new mail(s) into my MH folders ?
> 
> In fact, I am subscribed to several mailing lists (a dozen I think)
> and I fear I will miss mails as time passes.

What I do is documented in the manual:

 http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/html/Incorporating-Mail.html#index-_0040file_007b_002eprocmailrc_007d-286

: You can use the mh-inc-spool-list variable to direct MH-E to retrieve
: mail from arbitrary spool files other than your system mailbox, file it
: in folders other than your +inbox, and assign key bindings to
: incorporate this mail.
: 
: Suppose you are subscribed to the mh-e-devel mailing list and you use
: procmail to filter this mail into ~/mail/mh-e with the following recipe
: in .procmailrc:
: 
:      PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/mh
:      MAILDIR=$HOME/`mhparam Path`
:      :0:
:      * ^From mh-e-devel-admin <at> stop.mail-abuse.org
:      mh-e
: 
: In order to incorporate ~/mail/mh-e into +mh-e with an I m
: (mh-inc-spool-mh-e) command, customize this option, and click on the INS
: button. Enter a Spool File of ~/mail/mh-e, a Folder of mh-e, and a Key
: Binding of m.
: 
: You can use xbuffy to automate the incorporation of this mail using the
: Emacs 22 command emacsclient as follows:
: 
:      box ~/mail/mh-e
:          title mh-e
:          origMode
:          polltime 10
:          headertime 0
:          command emacsclient --eval '(mh-inc-spool-mh-e)'
: 

So, messages from each of a dozen mailing lists get sorted by procmail
into different spool files, which standard tools (like gbuffy and
xbuffy) can monitor.  I can read in any of these spool files into the
appropriate folder by either clicking on the xbuffy button, or from
within Emacs with keystrokes.

You could also get procmail to file the messages directly into MH
folders, but I like the spool file technique because I like to use
xbuffy to see new messages.

Peter

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