How can I filter email into folders based on content?
A variety of limited solutions for this problem exist. None are perfect, but one or more may meet your needs. A few are discussed here; This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, only an overview of the most common or obvious choices. Pine has some filtering abilities. Pine is primarily a mail reader, and so its filtering ability is somewhat limited. Many people find it suffices for their needs, however. Read the internal documentation or visit the Pine homepage for instructions on using Pine’s filtering rules. Procmail is more powerful. It is designed to be used in the model where you log into the same machine that contains your mail, either on its local disk, or its mail partition imported in some fashion.
Basically, the answer is “use mh” for the ITD provided email alternatives, though if your department provides email access, one or both of the following may work for you: There are tools available on most UNIX systems, for example: procmail and MH. I will address both of them here. Procmail is designed to be used in the model where you log into the same machine that contains your mail, either on its local disk, or its mail partition imported in some fashion. You set up a .forward file that pipes your mail through procmail, which looks at a configuration file to find out what to do with your various messages. This does NOT work on the login.itd.umich.edu machines, and never will, both because procmail is a finicky program it’s easy to lose email with, and because The ITD Login Service isn’t related to The IMAP Email Service, other than providing a method (pine or mh) for accessing it. MH, the Rand Mail Handler, doesn’t process your mail when it comes it, but when you read it.
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