Re: Any kmail filtering advice?
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:13:21 -0800, Steve McCarthy wrote:
> On Thursday 23 Dec 2010, Lisi wrote:
>> On Thursday 23 December 2010 21:48:26 Steve McCarthy wrote:
>> > Has anyone else found a way to defer junk (not SPAM) mail in kmail?
>>
>> It can use Spamassassin. (It can integrate it.) But I don't
>> understand the distinction between Spam and Junk.
>>
>> To which version of KMail are we referring? Or which version of
>> Debian?
>>
>
> Sorry I wasn't clearer. I believe the distinction is: SPAM is
> unsolicited whereas junk is solicited but unwanted at the present time.
> Stores you patronize or causes you support will all send you email which
> you may or may not want to read right now. Just like junk snail mail,
> usually its tossed unopened, but occasionally you're interested (or
> bored) enough to read it.
>
> Ice Owl labels any mail not coming for a "friend" as junk and moves it
> out of your in-box. I think friends are defined as being in your
> address book, but not entirely sure.
Hum... maybe you are looking for a way of telling Kmail that e-mails
coming from selected users (in address book or by manually selection) is
"ham" (and never tagged as spam, kinda whitelisting in SA parlance).
This should be easy to achieve by using anti-spam measures (SA,
bogofilter) along with filtering actions (rules).
Here there are some tips:
http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-create-email-filters-with-kmail/2010/01/11
http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/Tools#Anti-Spam_Tools
> As to your second question "Why move her?" kmail is better integrated
> with kde, for whatever that's worth. Plus, Ice owl uses a database
> rather than maildirs for storage. Any new message means all stored
> messages are backed up nightly.. There may be a solution to this, but
> it wasn't obvious to me.
Agree :-)
But I hope your girlfriend does not care about HTML e-mails and advanced
formatting options >:-)
> So, since kmail's address book filter appears broken, I'm searching for
> another approach.
Kmail anti-spam and filtering tools used to be very powerful and
flexible, maybe you need to dig a bit more about how to get the same
behaviour here than in Thunderbird.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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