I could not have replied any better. Procmail is the tool
to use for all filtering. And the .muttrc is so
configurable, once you get a few under your belt you
will never want for another email reader.

Mike
mgcon@getnet.com
http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
Phoenix, AZ
USA

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> Steven M. Klass wrote:
> > I browsed TFM and came up short..  Can someone point me on how to
> > automagically copy a message from *@xyz.com to another folder in
> > mutt.  I am really trying to set this up as my default MUA.  I like
> > it so far but I definitely have some questions.
> 
> Offhand, I believe you are looking for the 'mbox-hook' keys.  However,
> I would suggest that you don't use mutt for that.  What you are
> describing is mail filtering and programs like 'procmail' do a much
> better job of that.
> 
> For instance, I get several hundred emails per day.  I have a set of
> procmail "recipies" that process each mail and decides where it should
> go.  When I get one from 'plug-discuss@.*', it automatically moves it
> to my Mail/plug-discuss mail folder.
> 
> > Also how can I set my "from" line.  It want to call
> > machinename.domainname.com instead of domainname.com.
> > 
> > PS I am using qmail..  If that matters for part two anyway?
>  
> It's best to do this in two steps.  To get mutt to use your custom
> header, insert this line into your .muttrc:
> 
>   my_hdr From: Steven Klass <user@domainname.com>
> 
> Doing that used to be enough.  Unfortunately, quite a few mail servers
> out there now don't like invalid From (not From:) headers.  As a
> result, you need to get qmail to add a correct one.  To do that, add
> this to some random rc file:
> 
> export QMAILSHOST=<your real domain name>
> export QMAILSUSER=<your user name>
> 
> The end result of $QMAILSUSER@$QMAILSHOST must be a valid email
> address.
> -- 
> Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
> granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
>             KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop
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