Am Sonntag, den 30.06.2013, 14:38 +0200 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt:
> Am Sonntag, den 30.06.2013, 11:23 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco:
> > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Mittelstaedt
> > <tmsta...@t-mittelstaedt.de> wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 29.06.2013, 13:47 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco:
> > >> Hello!
> > >> I was talking with a friend about the usefulness of Gmail's
> > >> "Important" folder/tag (and most recently, the Social / Promotions /
> > >> Updates / Forums folders/tags) and I was wondering how feasible would
> > >> it be to implement such a mechanism by using a spam filter.
> > >>
> > >> The idea, speaking specifically for the "Important" tag, would be
> > >> using a bogofilter / spamassassin configuration (independent from the
> > >> one detecting spam) and training it to detect certain emails and
> > >> attributing them the 'important' tag.
> > >>
> > >> Would this be feasible?
> > >
> > >
> > > Sure, use message filters, available in the main menu under
> > > Edit->Message Filters. Create a new rule, add action "Set Label".
> > 
> > Ok, that's the manual way.
> > I wanted to know if a more automatic way is possible.
> > 
> > For example, in Gmail, I mark an email as 'Important' (not tag: I
> > click on the 'box' [semi-square-losangle box] after the subject on
> > conversation view).
> > I do nothing more: I set _no_ keywords to be tracked, nor from fields.
> > I just mark the email as 'important'.
> 
> Select the mail use the right mouse button select the context menu, set
> label.

Or you can use the context menu for a mail right away to mark a mail as
important or to follow up!!

> 
> > 
> > Next time the topic is covered elsewhere (for example, a random
> > iwl3945 driver thread on linux-wireless), as I have marked in the past
> > an email with similar terms as Important, Gmail tags such mails as
> > Important and they appear on the Important folder.
> > 
> > I wanted to know if there was the possibility of getting the same
> > functionality using some sort of combination of existing tools.
> > 
> > --
> > Pedro
> 
> The message filters do just that. Have you actually tried it out? You
> set a condition for the email in question, e.g. "subject contains iwl39"
> or "Label important is set". You can also trigger the message filters
> manually by selecting a bunch of mails and hit Strg+Y. 
> Should cover what you need. Just play around a little.
> 



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