Mailbox management

[Kelly Prescott]

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.
>> 
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