On Thu, 2022-05-05 at 21:38 -0700, Ubuntu Shoto Dojo wrote: > How can I receive from a group?
SMTP has no concept of a group; the upshot is there is nothing in the message envelope [headers, etc...] which indicate a message was sent to a group. What "group" means is always an implementation detail of the client and/or server. > I need to receive response (or unexpected messages from the group and > put them together (group them) in a folder. I can find nothing in > the filters which seem to have any such ability, maybe[Sender] [is in > group] [specific Contact List] I, in 30 years [including as a groupware developer], have never seen such a feature. > This is non-trivial (and perhaps a killer to use Evolution), as I > currently have 17 folders into which I need to sort incoming emails, > based on 50+ contact lists, ranging from 6 entries to 250+ entries in > the list. Trying to manually maintain individual email addresses in > filters as thingschange is a complete no-go. Can you really find no other solution to achieve whatever The Goal of this usecase is? Doing truly tortuous things with e-mail is rarely the best - or only - approach. Filter on an inbound list of 250+ e- mail addresses... as an Administrator my immediate response to a user doing such a thing would be "Don't do that; what are you attempting to achieve?" Or you need a server side solution; this isn't an appropriate task for an e-mail client. > Is there some way to compare an incoming email address to a Contact > List? If you want to attempt to implement something like this Client-Side I suspect the correct answer would be to use the "pipe to program" Condition. Then write a script that talks to EDS and compares to groups [this is non-trivial, but likely the only correct way] Or run a server; this is something Postfix can do. Again non-trivial. > Is there any documentation for the storage format for > 1) Contacts and Contact Lists > 2) Filters > because I could write (bash/awk/perl/whatever) scripts to update the > filters based on the lists, if that is all that is available. Don't do that. You can talk to EDS via D-Bus or libfolks(?), do not grouse around inside files. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
