Email program that automatically sorts?

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I check email coming to several different addresses. Is there a program
which can automatically sort mail into folders based on the address it
was sent to, creating folders on the fly, rather than me having to
create a new rule each time I create a new alias/address?
 
I check email coming to several different addresses. Is there a program
which can automatically sort mail into folders based on the address it
was sent to, creating folders on the fly, rather than me having to
create a new rule each time I create a new alias/address?
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Pity about the cross-posting ...
 
Sagittaria said:
I check email coming to several different addresses. Is there a program
which can automatically sort mail into folders based on the address it
was sent to, creating folders on the fly, rather than me having to
create a new rule each time I create a new alias/address?
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Well in Outlook Express you can click on the To heading, then they will be
sorted by who the email is sent to, even though they aren't actually put
into separate folders. I imagine most email clients will do a similar thing.

I don't suppose they realised that anyone would be so promiscuous about
creating new addresses. ;->
 
In said:
I check email coming to several different addresses. Is there a program
which can automatically sort mail into folders based on the address it
was sent to, creating folders on the fly, rather than me having to
create a new rule each time I create a new alias/address?
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man procmail procmailrc procmailex
 
* Sagittaria said:
I check email coming to several different addresses. Is there a program
which can automatically sort mail into folders based on the address it
was sent to, creating folders on the fly, rather than me having to
create a new rule each time I create a new alias/address?
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What operating system?
What mailer?
 
Why? I kept it to 3
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exactly.

post to one group...
wait for replies...

if you still haven't found solution:
post to another group...
wait for replies...

etc.
 
William said:
man procmail procmailrc procmailex
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The original poster is on Windows, so he can't make use of all the
goodies we've become accustomed to for the last 20 years.
 
Sagittaria said:
I check email coming to several different addresses. Is there a program
which can automatically sort mail into folders based on the address it
was sent to, creating folders on the fly, rather than me having to
create a new rule each time I create a new alias/address?
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I use Thunderbird on WinXP-SP1. It creates a set of folders
for each e-mail address. Visit: http://mozilla.org for details.
 
Why? I kept it to 3 and they all seemed reasonable choices.
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Don't mind the idiots, mate. Anyone with a half-decent newsreader
only sees your post once anyway.

Crossposting is a perfectly reasonable and useful technique for
initiating a discussion on USENET. Mind you, strict netiquette
probably requires that you set a single Followup-To group, and point
that out in the body of your message so anyone else interested knows
where to hangout for answers. (Of course, there are just as many
users out there who will insist on restoring all the original
distribution for their replies as there are those who get their
knickers in a knot over the initial crossposting. It takes all
types. :-)

[ Followups to news.groups.questions ;-) ]

Cheers, Phred.
 
Why? I kept it to 3 and they all seemed reasonable choices.
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When you get someone in a group that gripes, just post one message to
3 groups, instead, to save the grief. Cross-posting is a valid way of
requesting information, but some folks get bent out of shape. You'll
find the other way works just as well though, pity, because the
responses won't be shared with the others in the other groups. But
when you have a squeaky wheel ...

Good luck!
 
I have never understood the extreme hostility to "cross posting" ...even
though I now understand why there is SOME resistance to it..

Anyway, what is the difference between "cross posting" and sending one
message to three groups?
 
Norman Cohen scribebat:
Anyway, what is the difference between "cross posting" and sending one
message to three groups?
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When I send a cross-post, the message is saved only once and each group
shares this message with the others - with a good newsreader, it is
treated as a single message. (Ie, it has to be load only once) This
gives many possibilities, like asking for replies into a certain group
and one can see in which other newsgroup this message posted (which
might make it easier to find out the context for the message).

When you send a message three times to different groups, then you have
three unconnected messages. Stuff like that is explained in
<--
bye,

Onno
 
Norman Cohen said:
I have never understood the extreme hostility to "cross posting"
...even though I now understand why there is SOME resistance to it..
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The reason is that one group which is well behaved and fairly clean can
become littered by a lot of dirty or irrelevant messages from other
newsgroups through crossposting. And there is not much one can do about
it, except wait until the spammers in the crossposted groups change
threads and forget to include the cleaner group.
Anyway, what is the difference between "cross posting" and sending one
message to three groups?
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Separate messages avoids the negative consequences of crossposting, but
means that somebody who reads more than one of the groups will see the
message more than once.

Different groups have different levels of acceptance towards
crossposting, so it is best to observe the habits in a group before
crossposting.

In some hierarchies of groups they get very irritated if you post
separate copies of the same message, because the participators subscribe
to several of the groups, in other groups they dislike crossposting a
lot, because it attracts a lot of irrelevant messages.
 
Roger said:
The reason is that one group which is well behaved and fairly clean can
become littered by a lot of dirty or irrelevant messages from other
newsgroups through crossposting. And there is not much one can do about
it, except wait until the spammers in the crossposted groups change
threads and forget to include the cleaner group.
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I use NFilter to drop all messages crossposted from here to

24hoursupport.helpdesk
alt.os.windows-xp
alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc

I find it helps to keep things 'clean'.
 
jo said:
I use NFilter to drop all messages crossposted from here to
24hoursupport.helpdesk
alt.os.windows-xp
alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc

I find it helps to keep things 'clean'.
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Most people do not use such advanced filters, and there is not much need
for it here in acf. The only crossposted thread of any significance
lately is the one from shareware authors, and I think it is dying out
now.

The only filter I use is the plonk filter, for a few spamming types with
dirty language and nothing useful to say.

Acf is actually one of the cleanest newsgroups in usenet right now.
Let's hope it stays that way. Knock on wood..
 
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