Christopher Biggs wrote:
> "R. Lee Hawkins" <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the
> 'Net and spake thusly:
>
> > Finally, please note that I have been forced to switch to the digest
> > version of the mailing list. While I really love the sense of community
> > of the list, the volume that sense of community generates made it
>
> (I was going to send this just to Lee, but I thought that this
> information might help others also.)
>
> If you're getting a lot of email, and you're not using presorting,
> then you're working too hard.
>
> For those of you who use combined internet tools from Microsoft or
> Netscape, some presorting rules are built into your mail clients. The
> dreaded FM will explain more.
>
> For those of you whose mail is delivered to a Unix box, there are
> several add-on tools available. One of the best is a powerful
> filtering/sorting package (which I use) called "procmail".
>
> I receive on the order of 1000 messages per day, and if they were not
> presorted into folders, I would do nothing else but read mail.
>
> My configuration file for procmail is commented to serve as an example
> to new procmail users. You can retrieve this file automatically by
> sending me email with the subject line "send procmail" (the
> auto-response is provided courtesy of a procmail rule).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Chris.
>
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