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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:06:09 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Mutt: Reading POP3 mail and moving the messages to folders based on To: and Cc: headers, before the messages are read.
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In-Reply-To: <006a01c0b122$577ce060$275c100a@actfs.co.uk>; from Malcolm.Boekhoff@actfs.co.uk on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:44:21AM -0000

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:44:21AM -0000, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
> I want to retrieve messages from a POP3 mailbox and move them into folders (using Mutt's pattern recognition expression operator
> "~C") depending upon their To: or Cc: headers.
> 
> N.B. I don't want to read the messages before they are moved. I want them moved into separate folders, so that I can switch to those
> folders to read the messages.
> 
> Once they have been moved into such folders, I don't want them moved again.
> 
> Can somebody please tell me what I should set up to do this? I have been lead to believe that I can use a macro to switch the
> "spoolfile", use the 'G' <fetch-mail> command then switch the spoolfile back to $MAIL, however, I don't really understand what I
> should set "spoolfile", "mbox" to. I thought I could maybe use "save-hook"s to do this, but the documentation is not very helpful on
> these, for simple-minds like mine.
> 
> What I want is:
> 
> +mutt
> +cygwin
> +mbox
> 
> I want all messages downloaded from the POP3 server to go into +mbox, but those matching "~C *cygwin*" to go into +cygwin and those
> matching "~C *mutt*" to go into +mutt. I want the messages moved before I read them.

A search in the mail archive had the following result:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00996.html

Corinna

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