On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 11:47, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > > You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this > > maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a > > folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call > > categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates, > > formus, promotions. This is not reflected into IMAP, all these > > categories are just INBOX. This is my problem, gmail auto- > > categorizing magic is just too useful but only available through web > > I/F. I _could_ write filters in theory, but gmail magic is just so > > much better at it. > > How much trust do you put in gmail in getting this automatic > categorising correct? > With gmail I filter lists using the subject line when the list puts something like "[list-name]" in the subject, or other header data, but some list messages still show up in unexpected places. > > I make filters for standard things (mailing lists, my service > providers, etc), but I hand sort everything else because I wouldn't > want important things misfiled. I don't even use spam filtering > because I know that makes mistakes (in both direction), and it always > will. > For my gmail (used mainly for list mails), the volume of spam is quite low. I have an address on a "community network" that gets much more spam. Firefox's trainable filter combined with the community network's filtering works reasonably well for me. -- George N. White III
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