Re: bbdb and storing emails

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

David <de_bb@arcor.de> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>> I already use procmail so could theoretically use that but it means
>> messing with system files on my mailserver. Ideally I would manage it
>> from my bbdb.
>
> You can use the gnus-private field to split mails according to the field
> gnus-private:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SplitMailUsingBbdb
>
> Since I retired Gnus mail splitting in favor of procmail on my mail
> server, I'm now happily using this
>
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/emacs/niko-bbdb-split.el
>

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> to generate procmail rules based on the BBDB gnus-private
> fields. Together with Tramp, it automatically creates a procmail rules
> file on the mail server via ssh, which is included in my .procmailrc.
>
> -David

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I will look into it. Thanks.

But, a bit the worse for wear, I did laugh reading it (***). If one did not
have familiarity with things the buzz words would frighten someone off
this area for life :-;


-- 
 important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.  ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations:  Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970