On 2023-11-28 22:46:50, Simon wrote:
> onefang <onefang_devuan@???> wrote:
> > Fetchmail
> > feeds emails through maildrop, which uses a grey list to sort things into
> > standard Maildir folders on my desktop.
> >
> > The grey list has rules like "put any email from the Devuan mailing lists
> > into the Devuan folder" (lots of that sort of rule), "put emails from
> > specific people into the inbox folder" (very few of those people), "put
> > emails from my family into the Family folder", "put known spam into the
> > Spam folder", and finally "everything else goes into a holding folder so
> > I can figure out what to do with it later".
>
> Do you have any suggested links for looking up how to do that ? I’m using Maildrop between Postfix and my mailboxes, but at present it’s doing nothing but take the message and drop it in the main Inbox.
> From memory, when I last looked at this several years ago, what frightened me was statements that if I got the Maildrop script wrong, or it just didn’t have the pre-existing Maildir, then it would break.

man maildropfilter

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