Hey, procmail gurus

[Ben Scott]

On 3/27/07, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> I have found that, usually, when a list posting has generated 10 or 20
> replies, I'm no longer interested in the follow-ups.
> ... being able to declare a thread interesting ...

  What mail reader do you use?  It might be easier/better to address
things from that standpoint.  For example, some readers allow you to
do something called "thread kill", which lets you, with a single
keystroke, say you don't want to see a given thread anymore.
Depending on the implementation, this might be a "soft kill", which
simply marks future new mail in the thread as "read", or might be a
"hard kill", which deletes it.

  Otherwise, what you describe probably could be done with procmail
(just about anything do with mail can be done with procmail), but it
might need a little shell script hackery to go with it.

-- Ben