On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 10:57 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > With respect of actions, especially picking destination folder for
> > copy/move operation on-the-fly based on the message being filtered,
> > that's not possible. I agree, it could be an interesting feature. I
> > do
> > not know how such thing would look in the UI, because there might
> > be an
> > expression, which can be similarly complicated as the condition,
> > but
> > also with an output other than true/false.
> >
>
> I presume it would be something relatively simple like the format
> string for date(1) with a few extras. So the folder to filter a
> message
> into would be specified by, say, "%Y/%F" where "%Y" is the full year
> and "%F" is the contents of the From: header before the @. I seem to
> remember that an ancient MUA called elm had a similar feature for
> auto-
> filing mail; Exim (an MTA) can deal with variable destination names
> in
> the filters, in fact my Exim filter has at the very top
>
> unseen save mail-archive/${length_10:$tod_log}
>
> which saves every single mail I receive into a daily mbox folder.
>
Why not have a regular expressions option (for search and whereto)
for those who know how to use it?
George Reeke
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