Further geek help needed, sorry

[taimatsu]

I am getting on fairly well with mutt and have found handy commented dotfiles to nick stuff from. I have also set up a procmailrc with recipes for my mailing lists in. However, they are not being used! How do I tell mutt that procmail should be filtering things? Or is the problem with my procmailrc?

Said file begins as follows:


# uk-general
:0:
* ^TO*uk\-general
UK-General

# filk
:0:
* ^TO*filklore
filk


and continues in much the same vein.

Comments

[bob]

does your .forward know its suppsed to send stuff through procmail

[taimatsu]

Hmm, no. But I have found a thing to set that up, I think, so I will use it. Or attempt to.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

$ less .forward
"|/usr/bin/procmail"

[aendr.livejournal.com]

Well it depends on the headers, I have for example:

:0:
* ^Mailing-List: list guiding_uk@yahoogroups\.com
IN-lists-guidinguk

:0:
* ^X-BeenThere: something\.hidden@nothing\.com
IN-lists-general

:0:
* ^From:.*fakeguidingaddress@yahoo\.co\.uk
IN-guiding

:0:
* ^TO_aendr\-google@earth\.li
spam2

[flick.livejournal.com]

I can see your problem right away: you're on filk lists, and your email programme is objecting against it....

[hides]

[taimatsu]

I'm actually on it because for some reason it WON'T LET ME UNSUBSCRIBE. God knows why. And no-one at the listowner end replies to anything. Goddammit.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Minor point, but using the "*" after the ^TO or ^TO_ form is also deprecated, as the expanded expression already contains it (or its equivalent). It just slows things down.

[taimatsu]

Ah, thanks for that.

[uon.livejournal.com]

Is mutt not checking the mailboxes which should be receiving mail, and therefore not noticing when you get new mail? If so, you should check that your .muttrc tells it where to look. For example, I have:

mailboxes +whitelist +dsa +mbox +batch +qmw +scr +huntsman +ic +bu +ogsi-lite \
        +lb3d-devel \
        +opengl-simple \
        +parents +lj \
        (insert a thousand other mailbox names here) \
        +some-dull-list-at-the-end

Each of the things after mailboxes is the name of a folder I want mutt to check; the + prefix is an abbreviation for ~jon/Mail, the directory which contains all the different folders, and I've split it across multiple lines by putting a \ at the end of every line except the last. You might want to have a peek at section 3.11 (http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#ss3.11) of the mutt manual (http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/).

(You're welcome to a copy of my muttrc and/or procmailrc as well, but frankly they're close to line noise and they scare me.)

[elementalworld.livejournal.com]

# filk
:0:
* ^TO*filklore
/dev/null

this sends your mail from filklore directly to /dev/null, it does not pass go and you dont see it, useful for ignoring mailing lists you cant unsub from

[imc.livejournal.com]

If you fancy being a bit evil, you can set it to bounce the mail as well as binning it — that way they're bound to take notice sooner or later. :-)

#filk
:0
* ^TOfilklore
{
   EXITCODE=77
   :0
   /dev/null
}