Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:2600 alt.sys.sun:2472 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.sys.sun Subject: Re: Mail sorter needed Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 00:29:25 GMT References: <1991Jan9.220854.13899@ssd.kodak.com> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: danj1@ihlpa.att.com Distribution: na Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 46 In-Reply-To: dcox@ssd.kodak.com's message of 9 Jan 91 22:08:54 GMT >>>>> On 9 Jan 91 22:08:54 GMT, dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) said: Don> manually sort the mail into the appropiate mail folders [...] Don> The mail is always from the same machines, and it always goes Don> into the same folders. Is there a script or program that will Don> sort this mail for me? Why don't you "get on the bandwagon" with GNU Emacs/VM mailer... more info is avaiable from info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net, _not_ me. Naturally, I'm not sure if it does what you want, but it's free & groovy... here's part of its manual: ----------------- File: vm Node: Grouping Messages, Prev: Undoing, Up: Top, Next: Reading Digests Grouping Messages ***************** In order to make numerous related messages easier to cope with, VM provides the command `G' (`vm-group-messages'), which groups all message in a folder according to some criterion. "Grouping" causes messages that are related in some way to be presented consecutively. The actual order of the folder is not altered; the messages are simply numbered and presented differently. Grouping should not be confused with sorting; grouping only moves messages that occur later in the folder backward to "clump" with other related messages. The grouping criteria currently supported are: `subject' Messages with the same subject (ignoring "Re:" prefixes) are grouped together. `author' Messages with the same author are grouped together. `date-sent' Messages sent on the same day are grouped together. `arrival-time' Message presentation reverts to arrival time ordering (the default). If the variable `vm-group-by' has a non-`nil' value it specifies the default grouping that will be used for all folders. So if you like having your mail presented to you grouped by subject, then put `(setq vm-group-by "subject")' in your `.emacs' file to get this behavior. -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364