On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:30:04PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
OK, you're using Mozilla, on MSW, so unixy solutions for that aren't applicable, I guess. On linux, you could have used something like procmail to put the first copy to arrive into the list mailbox, and the second into "duplicates". (Or irrevocably discard it, if daring.)
Thunderbird has reasonably good filtering capabilities. not as good as procmail (and with the usual clumsiness of a GUI rather than vi to edit the config), but better than most GUI mail clients i've seen. I use TB ("icedove", actually - same thing, sans trademark) at work, because the university's exchange server seems to have really low timeouts for imap connections, so mutt gets disconnected in the time it takes me to reply to or even read a msg. i probably should just set up fetchmail or something. also, i can tolerate TB because of the external editor plugin which lets me use gvim to edit messages. at home, i still use mutt & procmail. in a screen session, with a script to start up about 20 mutts backgrounded (one for each mailbox i switch to regularly - otherwise switching mailboxes(*) in mutt involves closing the current mailbox. doing this, switching mboxes is as simple as ^Z and then 'fg n' - the script starts the mutts in the same order every time, so i've memorised the job numbers for particular mboxes by now, e.g. 'fg 1' for ~mail/cas, 'fg 10' for luv-main, 'fg 11' for luv-talk (*) yes, i still use mbox files...haven't ever had any really compelling reason to switch to Maildir craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #290: The CPU has shifted, and become decentralized.