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I got tired of adding a procmail rule for each new @perl.org mailing list, so I made a procmail rule that can automatically filter them. Here's what I came up with for a first pass at it: LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail-log MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail VERBOSE=on :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: contact \/(.*)-help $MATCH assuming your mail goes into $HOME/Mail in Berkeley mailbox format. I'm no procmail wizard, but this works for me. Unfortunately it also names the mailboxes "bootstrap-help", "perl6-language-help" etc. The procmail \/ regex marker and $MATCH only seem to be able to break off the right hand side of a matched expression, there's no equivalent of $1 that I could see. This has the disadvantage that if you subscribe to non-perl.org mailing lists that send an X-Mailing-List: header that looks like the perl.org ones, those will start getting filtered too. You could change the match to: * ^X-Mailing-List: contact \/(.*)-help@perl.org but then all the filenames would have @perl.org on the end. If someone has a finer-tuned rule than this, excellent, send it on in! I deal with having magically-appearing mailboxes with Mutt by having a line like this: mailboxes ! mbox `echo Mail/*` in my .muttrc, so that new mailing lists show up without my having to add them by hand. -- Jacob Davies jacob@well.comThread Next