Mailbox management

[Jayson Smith]

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.
>
>
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