On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmsta...@t-mittelstaedt.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 30.06.2013, 14:38 +0200 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt: >> Am Sonntag, den 30.06.2013, 11:23 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco: >> > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Mittelstaedt >> > <tmsta...@t-mittelstaedt.de> wrote: >> > > Am Samstag, den 29.06.2013, 13:47 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco: >> > >> Hello! >> > >> I was talking with a friend about the usefulness of Gmail's >> > >> "Important" folder/tag (and most recently, the Social / Promotions / >> > >> Updates / Forums folders/tags) and I was wondering how feasible would >> > >> it be to implement such a mechanism by using a spam filter. >> > >> >> > >> The idea, speaking specifically for the "Important" tag, would be >> > >> using a bogofilter / spamassassin configuration (independent from the >> > >> one detecting spam) and training it to detect certain emails and >> > >> attributing them the 'important' tag. >> > >> >> > >> Would this be feasible? >> > > >> > > >> > > Sure, use message filters, available in the main menu under >> > > Edit->Message Filters. Create a new rule, add action "Set Label". >> > >> > Ok, that's the manual way. >> > I wanted to know if a more automatic way is possible. >> > >> > For example, in Gmail, I mark an email as 'Important' (not tag: I >> > click on the 'box' [semi-square-losangle box] after the subject on >> > conversation view). >> > I do nothing more: I set _no_ keywords to be tracked, nor from fields. >> > I just mark the email as 'important'. >> >> Select the mail use the right mouse button select the context menu, set >> label. > > Or you can use the context menu for a mail right away to mark a mail as > important or to follow up!! > >> >> > >> > Next time the topic is covered elsewhere (for example, a random >> > iwl3945 driver thread on linux-wireless), as I have marked in the past >> > an email with similar terms as Important, Gmail tags such mails as >> > Important and they appear on the Important folder. >> > >> > I wanted to know if there was the possibility of getting the same >> > functionality using some sort of combination of existing tools. >> >> The message filters do just that. Have you actually tried it out? You >> set a condition for the email in question, e.g. "subject contains iwl39" >> or "Label important is set". You can also trigger the message filters >> manually by selecting a bunch of mails and hit Strg+Y. >> Should cover what you need. Just play around a little. >>
Not what I want. I want hassle-free, heuristics based filtering. I don't want to decide which are the keywords which matter. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
