On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 07:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 11:08 +0200, "The Wicked Wookie" wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 09:34 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 03:01 +0200, "The Wicked Wookie" wrote: > > > > I wonder if Evolution is capable of autocreate/delete temporary filters > > > > for messages that belong to a certain mailing list thread/subthread?! > > > > > > > > I don't want to go through the 'classic' filter creation procedure > > > > (clicking lots of buttons, wasting lots of time). I'm rather seeking a > > > > lightspeed keyboard shortcut way of doing it on arbitrary threads. > > > > > > > > The specific thread filters should also get autodeleted after some time > > > > so they don't pollute my filter space unnecessarily over time. > > > > > > It's not autodeleted, but what about Right click and "create rule from > > > message"? > > > > The Right click is a good start. But how about having also your own > > filter templates in the context menu? Like 'Filter based on thread' or > > more specific 'Trash all messages related to this Message-ID/Reference'. > > Are these two different things? It's hard to know what you mean.
You're right, first I tried to be as general as possible and then to narrow it down with an approach for a possible solution to my problem - that is: to 'silence' mailinglist threads/subthreads I'm not interested in on the fly. > Note > that there is currently no explicit match on Message-ID so that would > need to be added. Also, there's no way to specify a filter based on > properties derived from another message at runtime. That's a pitty. Although I see no need to derive information from another message since everything we would need to filter future messages of a certain mailinglist thread or subthread is already in the current posting (that are the Message-ID and Reference headers). I belive that Evolution already has a facility to destinguish messages based on these headers, because in the 'Folder' menu we'll find the 'Select Message Thread/Subthread' options. But the problem I see is that we would need a filter rule for every thread/subthread we want to silence. And so, by the time, we would end up with a gazillion filter rules. I guess the only way to solve this is to have a filter-expire functionality (with a editable default value, so we can use this sort of filter by pressing a keyboard shortcut). > > It would make life on high volume mailinglists so much easier. Although > > a filter-expire would be vital in such a use case... know what I mean?! > > My advice is to try and make this proposal more precise (it seems very > vague and hand-wavy at the moment), and then submit it as a Request For > Enhancement. I browsed the Evolution website but I didn't find an appropriate address to submit the requeust to... :-( _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
