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Want to do mail-sorting offline

1998-10-04 04:48:28
I now know how to sort mail as it comes in, but actually want to do most
processing offline.

ONLINE: (automatic)
Stage 1:        All PGP-encrypted mail to a particular inbound folder, to
be decrypted when offline
Stage 2:        All plaintext "trusted" (simply as in, "I know it's for me
personally" mail (mailing lists, certain subjects, people I actually
know), to another inbound folder
Stage 3:        Everything else to a "probablySPAM" folder

OFFLINE: (when called for)
Stage 1:        Decrypt any PGP stuff
Stage 2:        File trusted mail in folders

Is this easy?

Bear in mind I'm new to all this (and am *still wondering* why formail
won't tidy my mail by date when I use the "experiments.rc" with a recipe
saying:

        :0:
        * ^Date:.*Aug
        foo_Aug_1998

(and so on for other months)

and use
        formail -ns procmail experiments.rc < foo

Since grep sees "^Date:.*Aug" in foo perfectly well, am at a complete
loss, especially as I thought the regex was simple enough that even I
couldn't ruin it...) 

Regards, \/\/oof


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