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Re: deny unwanted threads




On 30-okt-2005, at 5:44, sqrt@bluebottle.com wrote:


Good time.

There are so many threads in this list , and it is great of course , but some
of them are not interesting for me .
So , i'm just in writing some scripts for mailfilter and mutt to delete them on
pop3-server before downloading .And i have some questions:

1)first:maybe somebody has done this?
2)As i understand there is some limitations to this idea:
a)in ideal ,mailfilter must understand the rules with double conditions
    ,e.g.:
    DENY=(^From bounce-debian-user.*)&&(^Subject.*unwanted thread) .
    But now it can't.
b)second solution:list-server must put list-name in subject header, like
    mplayer-users list do:'Subject: [MPlayer-users] seeking in a video
file'.I asked for this feature listmaster@lists.debian.org several times
    with no answer .
    c)last solution : while mailfilter don't support double rules and
listmaster don't agree to change the 'subject' header in the mails -
    we are to use separate mail accounts for such lists and separate
    mailfilter's conf-files .
The question is : maybe i'm wrong somewhere ?(It is not pleasant to do the useless job.)

Oh,yes, mailfilter doesn't support national charsets , so this is working only
for subjects in latin-based languages. :(



I don't know about milter, but Sieve scripts can do exactly what you want: match a particular sender AND match key words or a regexp in the subjectline.

just my 2 cents...

Peter



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