On 17/04/2009 16:20, Dave Post wrote:
On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
In Thunderbird's *mail* component, which is what I use on one of my
computers, it is possible to set up a "filter" that, for example,
highlights
in red in the Inbox all moderated messages i.e. those from unsubscribed
users. I have done this and obviously it makes life simpler.
Thunderbird's
*news* component does not allow one to do this and one has to examine
the
headers "by eye". So using TB to reply to this list via Gmane is that
little
bit more awkward.
I've done the same sort of thing with OSX Mail, but haven't sorted out
yet how to do more sophisticated things like replying automatically.
You might post instructions for creating your Thunderbird rule. (I did
that earlier for OSX Mail.) I've received a note from one of our
subscribers, saying he'd like to do that but doesn't know how, and I
believe many subscribers use Thunderbird's mail component.
I'll do this in a separate post.
Firefox also does not allow the creation of an appropriate filter.
Haven't
tried Internet Explorer. Some other *mail* programs allow the
creation of an
appropriate filter, others don't. I don't know about other *news*
programs.
I suspect it would be difficult for a browser to implement filters for
webmail. It would be easier to provide that sort of capability in the
interface at Yahoo's, Google's, whomever's server.
I misspoke. I shouldn't have accused Firefox (or any browser) of this
shortcoming. It's not a function of the browser. Instead it's a function
of the particular webmail service. What I should have said is that
Google mail doesn't allow one to filter on the relevant header although
it does allow one to filter on some headers.
A newsreader is a different matter because it should "know" everything
it's dealing with is essentially email. It's a bit surprising to
learn, then, that Thunderbird's newsreader doesn't support filters.
TB's news reader does allow some filtering. It doesn't allow one to
create a filter on the relevant header. I simply don't understand how
these people write code; how can you make the headers available in one
part of the program and not in another part of the same program? It was
*more* work to do it that way than to have made all the headers
available in both parts.
Not sure what to expect when something like Gmane's in the middle of
things.
Gmane doesn't actually cause any additional problems. The relevant
header is there if appropriate and absent otherwise, so you can do it by
hand. If you could find a newsreader that lets you filter on the right
header you could use it.
Dave
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