[imapfilter-devel]filtering a huge amount of folders

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:40:32PM +0100, Martin Kaehmer wrote:
> Hi all, 
>
> [...]
> 
> With a lot of lists this is getting rather complex. Is there an easier way
> to achive that kind of filtering? I thought of something like:
> 
> folder AllLists list-1,list-2,..,list-N
> filter ArchiveAllLists
>     older x
> action move ${current folder}.archive
> job ArchiveAllLists AllLists
> 
> ouh, seems that's exactly what Per Westerlund asked for, too. Lefteris, are
> you planning to implement anything like that?

Yes, I will add this feature.  It will be very similar to the "default
variable" $_ that Perl has.  This could, also, be extended so a set of
"special variables" will make it possible to use some information while
defining actions, etc.