Wednesday, June 12
Google Search: And if you're really interested in a rule set for Mail, and you're not
afraid of traditional unix tools, there's always procmail sorting.
what you'll need:
1) install procmail (may require you to drop to the CLI, I don't know of
Mac OS X comes with it, or if there's already a procmail package out there)
2) install the mail tools package (might not be out for X yet ... but it
was a common download for Nextstep, Openstep, and was available on Rhapsody
and X Server) -- this allows you to append files to mail spools, so you can
have procmail deliver to your individual mail folders, bypassing the Mail
rules engine. Once the package is ported to X, it'll be a package install
and wont require CLI.
3) edit your .forward to invoke procmail, and create a .procmailrc with
your rules (full regexp matching! capacity for a very rich and complex set
of rules). Neither of these steps requires CLI, just a text file editor
(like TextEdit).
afraid of traditional unix tools, there's always procmail sorting.
what you'll need:
1) install procmail (may require you to drop to the CLI, I don't know of
Mac OS X comes with it, or if there's already a procmail package out there)
2) install the mail tools package (might not be out for X yet ... but it
was a common download for Nextstep, Openstep, and was available on Rhapsody
and X Server) -- this allows you to append files to mail spools, so you can
have procmail deliver to your individual mail folders, bypassing the Mail
rules engine. Once the package is ported to X, it'll be a package install
and wont require CLI.
3) edit your .forward to invoke procmail, and create a .procmailrc with
your rules (full regexp matching! capacity for a very rich and complex set
of rules). Neither of these steps requires CLI, just a text file editor
(like TextEdit).
