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Re:Notmuch by benhoff on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:53PM (#33569788)
Are there any tools that people know of to do email automation on receiving emails?

I'd love something easily configurable that could help me tackle all the email I get with some simple rules, but I'm bound to an Outlook inbox for work.

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Re:Notmuch by WhatIsDukkha on Saturday November 12, 2022 @12:01AM (#33570124)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail

procmail is the classic tool for this and can usually be wedged in somewhere.

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Re:Notmuch by aidenn0 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @12:13AM (#33570174)
I like maildrop (from courier) way more than procmail. I used procmail for years, but when I switched, I never looked back
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Re:Notmuch by nanna on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:46AM (#33571626)
Mu has a concept of refiling which does this. I've got a load of refiling regexes set up so that I can just hold down a keypress over my inbox and it'll dynamically archive, delete messages according to my spec https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Refiling-messages.h...
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Re:Notmuch by kqr on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:50AM (#33571657)
Notmuch lends itself well to this. It can auto-tag new email with something like "new" and then you can write simple shell scripts to re-tag and take action based on contents.
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