You would use procmail to automatically sort your mail as you direct by the rules you supply in procmail "recipie" files, as they're called in procmail. It's a very powerful agent and works perfectly well, in my experience. In fact, procmail is the program that actually delivers mail on Red Hat systems by default. In other words, sendmail is used to send outbound mail, and fetchmail to retrieve mail, and procmail to deliver it to users on the local system. Pine is a very capable program, and supports things like hyperlinks and opening mime types like .wav files, if you have the correct mailcap entries. However, it requires too many keystrokes, for my taste, for the task of deleting message threads. Consequently, I have recently been using mutt, where this can be done with just two keystrokes. Nektarios Mallas writes: > From: "Nektarios Mallas" <nmallas@otenet.gr> > > Hi listers. > I would like to switch my email completely over to Linux but I have the > following questions. > Is it possible with the pine program to create different folders for my > lists and have pine deliver my messages appropriately? > Is there any way in pine to view my messages aranged by subject and then > delete an entire subject if I don't want to read it? For example, right now > in outlook, I may recieve a thred on a list with the subject line "linux is > the best, windows is garbage." On this subject there may be let's say 15 > messages. Since I am tired of topics like this, in outlook, if I have my > messages sorted by conversation I can simply press delete on this subject > and all 15 messages are gone with a key stroke. Can I do something similar > with pine? If not, is there any other program that will do this? > Thanks for any help. > Regards. > Nektarios. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list