powermail-discuss Digest #2859 - Monday, July 14, 2008
Mail Filtering
by "Joe Hallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: MobileMe and Push-eMail
by "Sean McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Mail Filtering
by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Mail Filtering
by "Michael J. Hußmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Mail Filtering
From: "Joe Hallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:23:20 -0700
My wife and I share a computer running PowerMail. Each of us has several
email accounts - a total of nine. All incoming mail is filtered. Spam is
removed and remaining messages are organized into folders. Some are
automatically forwarded to an external business acount. All are labeled.
Here is the problem: We frequently receive messages that are addressed
to each of us as individuals. The filters treat each copy as if it were
a new message. This results in forwarding duplicate copies, confusing
our filing and labeling system, and causing extra manual effort to sort
things out.
How can I flag these messages and apply unique processing depending upon
whether our names both appear in the address fields?
Joe Hallett
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Subject: Re: MobileMe and Push-eMail
From: "Sean McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:46:26 -0400
PowerMail Engineering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 6/20/08 8:56 AM said:
>Sean McBride wrote:
>
>>Well, I sorta agree. It's hard to compete with Apple since they make
>>the OS too. But email is an essential feature and Mac OS should come
>>with a mail client. But CTM is to blame too, they haven't been keeping
>>PM up to date. It still doesn't even have sheets, a feature added in
>>Mac OS X 10.0, 8 years ago.
>
>Keeping an application up to date with Mac OS is not trivial, you know.
Agreed... (BTW, I also maintain a PowerPlant application at my day job...)
So while I sympathise with your situation, it's still disturbing. Let's
look at history:
PowerMail 5.6 was released in December 2007, its new features were all
search-related (no doubt code from FoxTrot).
PowerMail 5.5 was released in October 2006, its main feature was
Universal Binary support.
PowerMail 5.4 and 5.3 did not exist.
PowerMail 5.2 was released in spring 2005 and had some significant
feature additions.
To me, this looks like a product that's not advancing very fast at all....
Can you give us any info about the purported PowerMail 6?
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Sean McBride, B. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mac Software Designer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Subject: Re: Mail Filtering
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:25:55 +0200
Joe Hallett said:
>We frequently receive messages that are addressed
>to each of us as individuals. The filters treat each copy as if it were
>a new message.
You mean the sender has sent a message to each of you with the exact
same content? Then each "copy" as you call it are unique messages,
despite the fact their contents are the same.
Or if this is not the case, how do you mean?
I do not think your filters regards each address entry as a unique
message. Please specify your filter settings and it will be easier to
help you.
Mikael
Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB
Mikael
Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB
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Subject: Re: Mail Filtering
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:56:23 +0200
Joe Hallett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Here is the problem: We frequently receive messages that are addressed
> to each of us as individuals. The filters treat each copy as if it were
> a new message. This results in forwarding duplicate copies, confusing
> our filing and labeling system, and causing extra manual effort to sort
> things out.
>
> How can I flag these messages and apply unique processing depending upon
> whether our names both appear in the address fields?
In this case, there are really two messages being sent; it is not a case
of "as if". Of course, you can filter for messages sent to both of you
(both addresses appearing in "TO" fields), but there will still be
duplicate mails to be dealt with -- there will always be two separate
mails, both addressed to both of you.
You might filter for mails that are (1) addressed to you, (2) addressed
to your wife, and (3) retrieved using you wife's account, and discard
those. Then you can apply all the normal actions to the copy retrieved
using your own account. Assuming that you both regularly retrieve mails
from all accounts, rather than just your own, this should work
reasonably well. Otherwise, your will wife would see those mails only
after you have retrieved yours.
- Michael
Michael J. Hußmann
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de
WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
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