Excellent mail filter

[line72]

I found this really cool program that automatically filters your email into folders for you! It uses a similar technique to spam filters, but instead of determining if an email is spam, it decides which folder it should be placed in! My .procmailrc used to be 100+ lines long and is now only < 10.

The program is called autofiler:
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~vrijkort/autofiler/

It's not in portage yet, and It needs a couple perl modules which can easily be installed using cpan. Once it is installed, run:

af_build_database MAILDIR_DIRECTORY

This will build the database for filtering. **Warning, if you have a lot of messages, you may want to add the --maxmessages flag and limit it to < 5000.

Once the database is built, add this to your .procmailrc file:

MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir

######################3##
### send everything ###
### else to autofiler ###
#########################
:0
|/usr/bin/af_deliver_message --verbose 3 $MAILDIR

I have a cronjob setup to run af_build_database everynight so that If i create a new folder and move messages to it, it's automatically picked up the next day.

Enjoy
/Line72