[imapfilter-devel] filter mailing lists on unknown names?

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:43:51AM -0500, Bill Kearney wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does the archive have a search function?  This may well be a FAQ but it didn't
> immediately jump out at me...

No, I don't think so. Maybe using Google with something like:

  "imapfilter foo functionality site:lists.hellug.gr"

> Is there a way to setup a filter for mailing lists based on not knowing the list
> name?
> 
> As in, just generically detect the List-ID:, Mailing-List: or other known header
> and automagically move the message into a folder, creating it if it's not
> present?
> 
> Sort of 'find the header, pull out the value of said header, make a folder based
> on that extracted value and move the mail to it?
> 
> This would help avoid creating new filters for each and every new list.
> Granted, not all lists do their headers in same fashion and the folder names
> might not be as 'pleasant-looking' as some users might prefer.  But for me it'd
> be a godsend to have the system automatically detect "oh yeah, he's signed up to
> yet-another-mailing-list" and automatically move the mail.
> 
> There aren't /that/ many different mailing list programs out there to make it
> unreasonable to consider making some filters to detect and handle them.

No, IMAPFilter, currently, does not have this functionality.

Lately, there seems to be a need for a "process the message's header in
this way and then copy/move it to a mailbox named like that".  I'm
working on it, so stay tuned...