On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --On 26 January 2010 08:40:48 -0500 Tim Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue 26, Jan'10 at 12:43 PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >>> >>> If you want to know for sure which messages you sent, then you have to >>> put them into a mailbox that all your clients recognise as the "sent" >>> mailbox, or define a flag or annotation that all your clients recognise. >> >> Agreed. But for 99.9% of all applications, if the email originated from >> your email address(es), then it can be assumed that you sent it. mutt >> works this way and it's fine for picking out sent messages mingled in >> with others. I basically search for From me. > > Of course, there's a whole class of spam that uses the same sender and > recipient addresses. And, there's also the problem that you might have > several email aliases. Mulberry addresses (sorry) this problem by allowing > you to list all email addresses that should be considered yours. >
I for one tend to send my self emails all the time, as todo reminders. I've found it to be a simple and effective was to record things I need to get done. However, couldn't this be addressed by having some sort of workflow type system, that allows for custom filters? [email retrieved from server]-->[series of filters/transformers]->[client/server] This would be very much like proc mail. Or a more powerful version of Mail's rules. Gautam. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
