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Mailing list folders and rules with Mutt

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Bob Mottram 2014-02-26 21:09:10 +00:00
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@ -1111,6 +1111,68 @@ Save and exit, then start the dovecot service.
service dovecot restart
#+END_SRC
** Create Email folders and rules
A common situation with email is that you may be subscribed to various mailing lists and want incoming email from those to be automatically grouped into a separate folder for each list.
We can make a script to make adding mailing list rules easy:
#+BEGIN_SRC: bash
emacs /usr/bin/mailinglistrule
#+END_SRC
Add the following:
#+BEGIN_SRC: bash
#!/bin/bash
MYUSERNAME=$1
MAILINGLIST=$2
SUBJECTTAG=$3
MUTTRC=/home/$MYUSERNAME/.muttrc
PM=/home/$MYUSERNAME/.procmailrc
LISTDIR=/home/$MYUSERNAME/Maildir/$MAILINGLIST
if [ ! -d "$LISTDIR" ]; then
mkdir -m 700 $LISTDIR
mkdir -m 700 $LISTDIR/tmp
mkdir -m 700 $LISTDIR/new
mkdir -m 700 $LISTDIR/cur
fi
chown -R $MYUSERNAME:$MYUSERNAME $LISTDIR
echo ":0" >> $PM
echo "* ^Subject:.*[$SUBJECTTAG].*" >> $PM
echo "$LISTDIR/cur" >> $PM
chown $MYUSERNAME:$MYUSERNAME $PM
if [ ! -f "$MUTTRC" ]; then
cp /etc/Muttrc $MUTTRC
chown $MYUSERNAME:$MYUSERNAME $MUTTRC
fi
#+END_SRC
Save and exit, then make the script executable.
#+BEGIN_SRC: bash
chmod +x /usr/bin/mailinglistrule
#+END_SRC
Now we can add a new mailing list rule with the following, where /myusername/ is your username, /mailinglistname/ is the name of the mailing list (with no spaces) and /subjecttag/ is the tag which usually appears within square brackets in the subject line of emails from the list.
#+BEGIN_SRC: bash
mailinglistrule myusername mailinglistname subjecttag
#+END_SRC
Repeat this command for as many mailing lists as you need. Then edit your local Mutt configuration.
#+BEGIN_SRC: bash
emacs /home/myusername/.muttrc
#+END_SRC
Search for the *mailboxes* variable and add entries for the mailing lists you just created. For example:
#+BEGIN_SRC: bash
mailboxes = =sent =mailinglistname
#+END_SRC
Then save and exit.
** Setting up a web site
#+BEGIN_VERSE