On 2 May 2016, at 3:45, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
On 24 Apr 2016, at 8:56, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 22 Apr 2016, at 19:17, John Cooper wrote:
Howard Wettstein wrote (at 22:53 on 21 Apr 2016):
I’m trying to set up smart folders but find some of the syntax
)(a lot of it) hard to follow, I mean in the drop-down lists. Is
there someplace I can find more or less detailed explanations?
This bothers me a lot, too. So much power, and so little
information!
The documentation could certainly be improved. As you might expect,
many of the undocumented details have been added to MailMate after I
wrote the documentation.
As Gary wrote in a separate reply:
The Smart Mailboxes feature is so powerful and Byzantine that you
often just have to ask Bennie here or by e-mail if some specific
task can be done, and he'll say yes or no.
It might be a comfort to some that my Inbox is “punished” for the
lack of detailed documentation :-)
I'm a pretty good reference sleuth, but I don't know how to even
begin to decipher these, among many others:
Source > Path > Noinbox
This is a hack to get around IMAP weirdness. Some IMAP servers place
all mailboxes under INBOX in the mailbox hierarchy, e.g., it's
`INBOX/Archive` instead of just `Archive`. The “Noinbox”
specifier gets rid of the `INBOX` prefix which can be useful for
various format strings used elsewhere (message list column, smart
mailbox submailboxes, counter notifications). Usually, you would not
need it.
Date > » Local > Formatted [why the chevrons? Formatted how?]
Local is a special selector which converts a date to the local time
zone. “Formatted” is also for use in format strings and is kind
of an implementation leak -- at least in the smart mailbox editor
and/or in searches. Most of the time you should only need to simply
use “Date” and its comparison methods (the popup after the date).
Subject > Blob
This is a word I got from an old RFC (standards document). It's the
string often used for mailing lists to state the list name in the
subject. For example, it would be “MlMt” in “[MlMt] syntax in
smart folders editor”.
Any Address > » Identity [or » Correspondent] > User > Notag
Identity/Correspondent are relatively new additions. They allow you
to reduce the set of matched addresses to your own identities (email
addresses found in your IMAP account settings to belong to you). So,
“Identity” is your address and “Correspondent” is *not* your
address. This could, e.g., be used to only match messages which have
one of your addresses in a recipient header: “Recipient ▸
Identity exists”.
I hope that helps a bit. I'll note that this information should be
added to the documentation when I have time extend it.
Any thoughts about making the docs based on markdown/asciidoc and put
on github and we could help make the docs better faster ?
Just a suggestion ;)
That would be pretty great. I would put some time into adding to it if
that happens.
I could even put some time into Markdown-ifying the current
documentation if Benny says he's open to the idea of migrating it to a
GitHub repo.
Sherif
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