[sf-lug] How to deal with a high volume of email from a mailing list.

Adrien Lamothe alamozzz at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 13 10:59:19 PST 2006


That's cool, but some people may not have access to that, or are set up
differently. For example, Ola is using his work account for the list.



Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote: Quoting Adrien Lamothe (alamozzz at yahoo.com):

> For those new to mailing lists, there is a technique for dealing with the
> sometimes lengthy discussions: create a separate email account, at 
> someplace like Yahoo, and use the account for participating in one or
> more mailing lists.

I just have this sort of stuff in my .procmailrc:


### LIST CATCH-ALLS

:0:
* ^X-BeenThere:*
$HOME/inboxes/lists

:0:
* ^X-Loop:*
$HOME/inboxes/lists

:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List:*
$HOME/inboxes/lists

:0:
* ^Mailing-List:*
$HOME/inboxes/lists



### MAILMAN REMINDERS
# Happy mailman day everybody!
:0:
* ^From: .*mailman-owner@
* ^Subject: .* mailing list memberships reminder
$HOME/inboxes/mailman-day

:0:
* ^From: .*listmaster@
* ^Subject: .* mailing list memberships reminder
$HOME/inboxes/mailman-day


### Challenge/Response nagmails to be discarded un-read

:0:
* ^X-Mailer: ispworks-spammgr*
/dev/null


:0:
* ^X-AskVersion*
/dev/null
# Active Spam Killer

:0:
* ^Subject: RE: message [Qurb.*
/dev/null
# Qurb

:0:
* ^From: automated-response at earthlink.net
/dev/null
# Earthlink spamBlocker




Of course, I do the maverick thing of reading mail right on my MTA box,
but the knack should be usable for other situations, too.


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