While in general I'd say stay with what you are comfortable with, I have
finally put onto the wiki the Exim filtering set I use to split out
mailing lists.
This is quite nice as its all regexp based - if I join a new list, it
just picks it up automatically (this would not work as well if you used
a mail client/IMAP server that needs you to subscribe to folders as then
the magically appearing new folder might not be noticed. With my
configuration using dovecot IMAP and evolution the folders just appear
in the list of folders, and the global vfolder for new mail picks it up
too).
The filter sample is at
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/MailFilteringTips
Nigel.
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 00:15 -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:05:46AM -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote the following:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:34:15PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote the following:
> > > Philisophical question for the assembled group.
> > >
> > > I currently use a LONG procmailrc to sort my mail into folders (conditionally
> > > running most mail through Spamassassin via spamc).
> > >
> > > Would it be more efficient/useful to use a Exim or Sieve filter to deliver the
> > > mail to the appropriate mbx files?
> > >
> > > I'm on like 100+ mailing lists, so this is important to me to keep my sanity.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Woah, and I thought I was on a lot (I think I capped myself at 10 on this
> > account, 5 on another) of lists.
> >
> > I use procmail/spamassin with Exim as my server. I love procmail and would
> > never consider using anything else (I'm only a novice user, too, I don't do
> > any fancy stuff, don't need to). I once even had clamassassin on this box
> > and used a combo perl script and procmail rule to do incoming virus scanning
> > (kinda pointless, though, but it cut down on spam).
>
> Oh yeah, the point is this:
>
> At this point, stick with procmail and use a good text editor (I use vim for
> everything, you may like Emacs, whatever) that has a powerful, but easy to
> use, search function (easy as with vim, just hit forward slash, type the
> pattern to be found, hit enter, repeat as needed).
>
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