I do something similar for processing dog tags for a county government. Maildrop is what I use for this and it works flawlessly. kp On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Jayson Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, processing incoming mail isn't what I'm wanting to do. I admin a > server which accepts submissions for an online magazine. Submissions come to > a submissions address. The submissions mailbox archives all mail received, > and then they're also forwarded to another mailbox for POP3 retrieval as well > as being sent to another Email account outside the server. At the end of each > submission period, I gzip or bzip2 the submissions mailbox and archive it so > I can start fresh. Without fail, *after* I've done this, someone will > resubmit a revision/correction/etc. which really belongs in the older > mailbox, but it's in the new mailbox now. This is just one thing I want to be > able to do. > Hope that clarifies things. > Jayson > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: Mailbox management > > >> Jayson Smith <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote: >> > >> > Does anyone know of any utilities for either Linux or Windows that let >> > you >> > manage Linux mailbox files? Move messages from one mailbox to another, >> > combine two or more mailboxes, etc. >> >> Mutt with the tagging commands and "apply to all" can do this >> interactively. >> You can search on any field or combination of fields in the headers or the >> body text, using regular expressions. >> >> Alternatively, if you want to do this automatically, Maildrop would be >> worth >> investigating. >> >> I started using Procmail in 1994 or 1995, and I've never had to manage >> mail >> manually since then. Maildrop is a more modern substitute for Procmail, >> but >> there's more and better documentation on the Web for Procmail. >> Essentially, >> Procmail handles the delivery of incoming messages by applying a script >> that >> the user maintains, which enables it to classify messages and write them >> to >> the appropriate folders. You can also run shell commands such as spam >> filters >> on the messages prior to delivery. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
