Question

a simple question:
I want to move emails with a certain subject to a folder and mark them as read afterwards. Moving works for me with

:0: H
* ^Subject:.*(ThisIsMySubject)
$HOME/mail/ThisIsMyFolder

But how to mark the mails as read?

Answer 1

^{Note: Updated dec. 16th 2011}

Procmail solution

The following recipe works for me. .Junk is the spam folder:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
:0
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
{
    # First deliver to maildir so LASTFOLDER gets set
    :0 c
    .Junk

    # Manipulate the filename
    :0 ai
    * LASTFOLDER ?? ()\/[^/]+^^
    |mv "$LASTFOLDER" "$MAILDIR/.Junk/cur/$MATCH:2,S"
}

Maildrop solution

^{Preface: Recently I had (no, I wanted) to do the same thing with a maildropfilter. After reading man maildropfilter I concocted the following recipe. I’m sure people will find this handy – I know I do.}

The example below marks new emails as read but also unread old messages.

SPAMDIRFULL="$DEFAULT/.Junk"

if ( /^X-Spam-Flag: YES$/ || \
     /^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*/ || \
     /^Subject: \*+SPAM\*/ )
{
  exception {
    cc "$SPAMDIRFULL"
    `for x in ${SPAMDIRFULL}/new/*; do [ -f $x ] && mv $x ${SPAMDIRFULL}/cur/${x##*/}:2,S; done`
    `for x in ${SPAMDIRFULL}/cur/*:2,; do [ -f $x ] && mv $x ${SPAMDIRFULL}/cur/${x##*/}S; done`
    to "/dev/null"
  }
}

Note that the exception command might read counterintuitive. The manual states the following:

The exception statement traps errors that would normally cause
maildrop to terminate. If a fatal error is encountered anywhere within
the block of statements enclosed by the exception clause, execution
will resume immediately following the exception clause.