This issue has sat with a status of 'Incomplete' for over four years now
without any response so it is being closed. The upstream bug report is
still open although this feature is unlikely to be implemented by either
Mozilla or Ubuntu.
Closing as "Invalid" but probably should be "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38988
Title:
[wishlist] thread scoring rules
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
Confirmed
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Personally I frequently need to watch certain threads on very high
volume lists (eg, LKML). This is what I end up doing at the moment:
1. select "threads with unread". Thunderbird tidily folds each thread
into a single line. fantastic.
2. scan the ones that are bold (ie, new threads), to see if any of the
messages are relevant, or are from authors that I know are working in
the same field as myself.
3. flag the threads I want to watch as "important", so that they stand
out in red. Possibly hit "R" on the ones I don't care about to mark
them as read. ignore the ones that are just underlined - if I didn't
care about them the first time around, I won't care about them the
next time.
4. read all the messages from the threads in red
5. hit "catchup"
Of course this usage pattern is just begging for a thread scoring
system, like emacs' gnus has. ie, setup key words, authors and other
rules (such as, threads I've participated in) that increase a thread's
score. Then you sort threads by score and ignore the ones that don't
make the threshold.
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