Are you using pine to read mail? Pine has some filtering options that I use for a crude form of spam-catching as well (I've never had the time to learn procmail). I also use it to divert mailing-list mails to different folders. Setup-Rules-Filters, from that point on it's intuitive.
I'm using Mailx (/usr/bin/mail, /usr/bin/mailx, or /usr/bin/Mail on most UNIX systems, /bin/mail under Linux, not as primitive as /bin/mail in older UNIX (and probably still there in current ones), but the same user interface). When I specifically need to pack/unpack a MIME attachment, or for reading a mailing list with lots of followups in threaded mode, I switch to Mutt.
(The Pine user interface bothers me. So does the Mutt interface, but not as badly. If I could have some of the modern MUA features grafted into Mailx, I'd be happy. It's a comfortable UI for me.)
Most of what I do in Procmail is pretty basic. I'm sure I could improve the spam-catching effectiveness of my current .procmailrc, but I also think that I'm not going to make that really effective unless I keep adding/tweaking rules every week to reflect new trends in spammage. That's why I mean to install CRM114 (http://crm114.sourceforge.net/) sooner or later. I figure I'll keep using Procmail to sort mailing lists into their own folders, 'cause that's already set up.
One thing about doing it at the MDA level instead of the MUA level is that I can switch mail readers willy-nilly without having to worry about which clients I've set up what rules for.
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(The Pine user interface bothers me. So does the Mutt interface, but not as badly. If I could have some of the modern MUA features grafted into Mailx, I'd be happy. It's a comfortable UI for me.)
Most of what I do in Procmail is pretty basic. I'm sure I could improve the spam-catching effectiveness of my current .procmailrc, but I also think that I'm not going to make that really effective unless I keep adding/tweaking rules every week to reflect new trends in spammage. That's why I mean to install CRM114 (http://crm114.sourceforge.net/) sooner or later. I figure I'll keep using Procmail to sort mailing lists into their own folders, 'cause that's already set up.
One thing about doing it at the MDA level instead of the MUA level is that I can switch mail readers willy-nilly without having to worry about which clients I've set up what rules for.