[Mutt] Exceptions to ~p based on From:?

Mihai Lazarescu mtlagm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 09:50:01 UTC 2018


On Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 18:49:02 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:

>    Although this used to work pretty well, more and more the
> modern mailing list paradigm (e.g. Mailchimp lists, etc.) is
> to have bulk or list messages that are indistinguishable
> from personal mail, e.g.:
>
>  From: "NYTimes.com" <nytdirect at nytimes.com>
>  To: user at domain.name
>  Subject: Today's Headlines: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump
>
> and of course this shows up in ~p, which is not desirable.
>
>    Most of the time, I can get around this by changing the
> subscription address to someting else, e.g.:
>
>  From: "NYTimes.com" <nytdirect at nytimes.com>
>  To: user-junk at domain.name
>  Subject: Today's Headlines: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump

If non-mutt solutions are acceptable, I'd change 
user at domain.name to user-junk at domain.name in some procmail 
rule(s).

Mihai


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