[Users] Need help, moving from kmail-1.13.5 to claws-mail

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:15:19 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> :0:
> * ^Subject.*[Dovecot]
> .dovecot/

> The preceding sends every email with d, o, v, e, c or t in its subject
> into the dovecot folder. In other words, most messages. Heaven help
> you if the destination were /dev/null instead: You'd never get them
> back. You need to escape the square brackets, as follows:

> :0:
> * ^Subject.*\[Dovecot\]
> .dovecot/

> The preceding sends all messages whose subject contains "[Dovecot]" to
> the dovecot folder. And as you probably know, procmail recipes are
> case insensitive.

For mailing lists being run by any modern listbot (such as this one, but
really at least 90% of them) something like the following is much, much
better and safer.

:0:
* ^List-Id: <dovecot\.dovecot\.org>
.dovecot/

Also, of course, this will work even for those few blessed lists that
don't mangle the subject.

And BTW, isn't the point of the Maildir format that is doesn't need
locking?  So why the second colon in the first line?

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