10/29 I am a dumbass pine user. my inbox has grown to 2000 messages, and I
need to use some simple program to sort all the messages into folders
by sender, then start using a program that will let me sort messages
into different folders and has more power, but is not just a command
line program like mail. any reccomendations? I'm tired of being a
dumbass and am willing to read whatever docs i need to, but i don't
want to have to switch again. thanks.
\_ Try mutt. It has pattern matching tagging and the like.
% mutt -f mailspool
Tpattern (Tag all messages matching "pattern")
;s (Save all tagged messages to specified folder)
;d (delete all tagged messages)
Etc..
\_ thanks!
\_ Use mh!
\_ he's using pine. what makes you think he'll be able to deal
with non-mbox utils?
\_ he's willing to read whatever docs he needs to do to handle
\_ he's willing to read whatever docs he needs to handle
his mail the best way possible. if you're lazy then sure
go ahead and use some toy. if you want to take total and
final control over your email forever, procmail and mh are
the way to go. mutt users think pine users are morons for
using a different mail toy. mh users understand that pine
\_ It can also hog up soda's CPU if you misconfigure it.
\_ misconfigure how? What is the pitfall to avoid here?
i don't read my mail on soda, so it'll actually be
someone else's CPU, but i don't want to be a dick
there either.
\_ Ya, several months back some pine user switched to mutt
and his mutt was using like 99% CPU.
users are just mh users who haven't read the docs yet.
\_ If you enable aggregate select in pine, then you can do what
you want.
; (aggregate select)
t (by text)
f (from)
<enter the sender>
a (apply)
s (save to) |
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