Whilst gmail may cater to the target audience Volker suggests, personally I find it to be just what I need. The spam filtering seems to be as close to pretty well perfect as it's possible to achieve for non-commercial users. I have been using it for nearly a year now & have had only 2 false positives and a handful of false negatives.
The other point is that all the futzing with filters etc and the storage of the actual messages is done for you. The downside is that Gmail have a different idea to us as to the meaning of thread. On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon 12 May 2008 09:13:45 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > > I recently subscribed my gmail account to the clug list and I can't > > seem to get gmail's filtering service working properly. the filter I > > am using is: > > > > Matches: Comments: University of Canterbury Linux Users Group > > Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "clug" > > > > but it never seems to match list mail. > > > > Anyone know what I am doing wrong? > > Yes, you're using gmail ;) > > That mail service is target at the average mass computer user. With > predictable results - as that main target audience wouldn't know what an > email header is let alone what comment: means, my guess is google didn't > bother to implement filtering on anything but to:, from: and subject:. > Like all the other GUI email clients like thunderbird etc. > > That also means sticking a List-id: header on this list doesn't help at > all. > > Give me procmail any time... > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
