Re: mailing list

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

Steve Dunham <dunham@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu> writes:

> Or, if you prefer, you can use GNUS.  For me, procmail dumps
> debian-user into the file incoming/mail.lists.debian-user.spool, GNUS
> automatically adds those messages to a special mail folder,
> 'mail.lists.debian-user', which looks just like a newsgroup.  I sort
> about 10 mailing lists this way and read them just like newsgroups.
> Some have auto-expire set, others do not.

You can also do this directly from GNUS without procmail.  Something
like:

(setq 
 nnmail-split-methods 
 '(
   ("duplicates"  "^Gnus-Warning:")
   ("debian-devel" "^Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org")
   ("debian-user" "^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org")
   ("debian-bugs" "^Subject: \\(Re: \\)?Bug#[0-9]+:")
   ("guile" "^Sender: owner-guile@cygnus.com") 
    ;"^\\(To\\|[Cc][Cc]\\):[^:]*guile@cygnus.com[^:]*\\(^\\w+:\\|\\n\\n\\)")
   ("inbox"       "")))

works for me.  Gnus then just gets and splits the contents of
/var/spool/mail/whoever itself.

> This gives you scoring and threading for free.  Without this, I would
> not read mailling lists.

Sure does make it easier anyway.

--
Rob