On 2023-08-30 22:39, Bob Rogers wrote:
From: "Carlos E. R." <> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:56:19 -0400
On 2023-08-30 18:54, Bob Rogers wrote: > From: "Carlos E. R." <> > Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:55:58 -0400
> In that case, I'm curious why you don't use the "List-ID:" to identify > them. It seems to me that would be more stable for legitimate emails > than the "From:" address. (And I know you're aware of "List-ID:", > because you showed us a procmail recipe on 5-Jul that uses it.)
Well, because it is a different account that I use for purchases, banks, etc. Once I buy something, like a laptop or a phone, they keep sending me adverts for laptops or phones at least once a week. How many do they think I need? I expect a laptop to last 15 years.
Well, they do not use mail lists, and I just want the mails gone from sight soonish.
You might be surprised about that. When companies send bulk email, as for advertising, they are usually using some kind of mailing list technology. If you look at these messages, you'll find such things as "Unsubscribe:" headers, and that usually includes "List-ID:". If they don't do that, then they get heat for being spammers.
So these filters automate this. After a number of days, that allow me to see them, they disappear.
I also get bulk advertising emails from companies that I want to see, but don't consider important, so I redirect them to different folders. based on "List-ID:". And the emails they send about such things as product ordering and billing come directly into my inbox, because they are not bulk.
That's an idea, send any mail in that account with a List-ID to a subfolder.
But if Thunderbird can filter based on other email headers, I don't see why it shouldn't also be able to handle "List-ID:" headers as well.
Well, for example on imap.gmx.es, I can't, the filters based on those that I use on Alpine stopped working, with an error similar to imap server side searches not supported. Meaning, that header is not part of the imap preview. Alpine has to do a full download of the entire imap inbox folder in order to apply the filtering. Same thing for Thunderbird, except that Th caches the entire folder on disk, and only has to download them once, for new messages. However, on Th that header has to be added, it is not listed by default. I may have it now because I added it on the past. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))