The Unix Weekly TIPsheet Vol. In this process there are two tools over which you have control and which can help you manage your mail.
Lets look at reading mail.
Suppose you get mail from a variety of sources. When new mail arrives you dont know whether it is from an important source which you should answer right away or from one of those pesky mailing lists to which you subscribed that sends you 20 useless messages each day. Sometimes you cant even find that important message buried among the other low priority mail. If you could just sort your mail into different folders automatically you'd be able to find your important messages. The program that will do this is for you is procmail , which delivers your mail on Bama.