Am Sonntag, den 30.06.2013, 22:38 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Thomas Mittelstaedt > <tmsta...@t-mittelstaedt.de> wrote: > > 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. > >> > >> 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. > >> > > Not what I want. I want hassle-free, heuristics based filtering. I > don't want to decide which are the keywords which matter.
Hmm. At least you can create a filter, which as the condition starts a program (heuristics filter), to return a certain value. And based on that you can set a label, set the status etc. You could also test for regular expressions in the filtered mails. -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
