[opensuse-kde] effectively managing many mailing lists with KMail
Hi there, I am using KMail and I'm subscribed to quite a number of mailing lists. I create an own folder for each mailing list that contain all the incoming messages. I'm just curious how other KMail users handle their tons of mailing lists so maybe I can learn something. I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list? I always create an own folder for each list. Regards Malte --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, January 9, 2008 11:37 am, Malte Gell wrote:
Hi there,
I am using KMail and I'm subscribed to quite a number of mailing lists. I create an own folder for each mailing list that contain all the incoming messages.
I'm just curious how other KMail users handle their tons of mailing lists so maybe I can learn something.
I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list? I always create an own folder for each list.
I do exactly that. I have most lists auto-filtered by subject to move to a given folder. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 20:41:13 PerfectReign wrote:
On Wed, January 9, 2008 11:37 am, Malte Gell wrote:
Hi there,
I am using KMail and I'm subscribed to quite a number of mailing lists. I create an own folder for each mailing list that contain all the incoming messages.
I'm just curious how other KMail users handle their tons of mailing lists so maybe I can learn something.
I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list? I always create an own folder for each list.
I do exactly that. I have most lists auto-filtered by subject to move to a given folder.
Filtering by subject is not a very good idea. It's much better to use the header that's specially intended for the purpose. In kmail, if you right-click on an email and select "Create Filter->Filter on mailing list", a filter will automatically be created that filters on the mailing list header. Then you can be sure that only list mail go to the folder, and nothing else (in particular, you can immediately see if an email was sent to the list, or to you directly, so you don't inadvertently reply on-list to private email) Anders -- Madness takes its toll --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Den Wednesday 09 January 2008 20:37:43 skrev Malte Gell:
I'm just curious how other KMail users handle their tons of mailing lists so maybe I can learn something.
A folder for each list, some low traffic lists are in the same folder. And using filters to ensure things go in the right place. Same as you I guess.
I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list? I always create an own folder for each list.
Have you enabled "threaded view" (for example: select folder -> click on "Folder" in menu -> "thread mails")? This way I find it is easy to keep track of who answers who, when, where and why. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 11:37, Malte Gell wrote:
Hi there,
I am using KMail and I'm subscribed to quite a number of mailing lists. I create an own folder for each mailing list that contain all the incoming messages.
I'm just curious how other KMail users handle their tons of mailing lists so maybe I can learn something.
I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list? I always create an own folder for each list.
In addition to the other basic suggestions, you should peruse the KMail filter configuration dialog thoroughly. There are extensive options for selecting messages and for doing things like adding and removing headers (the latter can be used to sever inappropriate In-Reply-To links in thread-hijacking posts) and for filtering messages through external programs (proving a means for stripping attachments, e.g.). And if you're tripped up by people who post to non-Reply-To-mangling lists (such as SUSE's) with Reply-To headers, you can also remove or reset the Reply-To header specifically. More to the point for you at the moment, you can also "mark" messages as, say "Important" or "Watched." This would allow you to mark your own posts to mailing lists so you can readily spot them in the list folder. Lastly, you can also remove or reset Reply-To headers. It's really quite nice.
Regards Malte
Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 11:37, Malte Gell wrote:
I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list? I always create an own folder for each list.
In addition to the other basic suggestions, you should peruse the KMail filter configuration dialog thoroughly. There are extensive options for selecting messages and for doing things like adding and removing headers (the latter can be used to sever inappropriate In-Reply-To links in thread-hijacking posts) and for filtering messages through external programs (proving a means for stripping attachments, e.g.).
This is a good idea, 1st messages I sent to a list (=which contain my email address as from) are now marked "watched" and I use the in-reply-to header and if it also contains my address to mark it as "watched" as well. Additionally I'll now try to make a shell script that create a pop up message when the above things apply and report in which list the reply appeared. Really nice. Malte --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008, Malte Gell wrote:
I'm especially curious, what steps do you do in order to quickly find out if there is a reply to a message you sent to a list?
For others who may be interested, this is now what I did: create a filter rule with two rules that need to be true: 1.) in-reply-to contains my email address 2.) list-post contains . This rules checks whether a message is a reply and belongs to a mailing list. If the above is true, the message is being piped thru the script below which uses the KDE command kdialog to pop up a message. I think this is pretty cool, though a quick and dirty hack. Suggestions welcome. Malte #!/bin/sh TMPMSG=`mktemp /tmp/kmail-filter-msg.XXXX` HEADER=`mktemp /tmp/kmail-filter-header.XXXX` export TMPMSG export HEADER cat > $TMPMSG grep -i -e "List-id" $TMPMSG > $HEADER grep -i -e "X-Mailinglist" $TMPMSG >> $HEADER export LIST="`cat $HEADER`" kdialog --msgbox "Reply in $LIST" & cat $TMPMSG rm $TMPMSG rm $HEADER --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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