On Saturday 15 November 2008 09:17, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

On Sat, November 15, 2008 17:51, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

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Test to 11.1 Beta 5 and Kmail to see if I have filters set up right. I am a NOOB and have never tried to use filters before

Your test failed.

Keith failed the test. Note that KMail allows filters to be tested independently of the receipt of incoming mail. A filter may be marked as available in the Message (menu) -> Apply Filter (submenu) as well as being assigned a button in the toolbar. Look in the "Advanced" tab of the Filter editor with the filter in question selected.

:-D

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* Keith B. Boykin [11-15-08 12:37]:

I want to set this so that only mail from the opensuse list is downloaded to my laptop, which is a linux only laptop running OSS 11.1 B5 with KDE 4.1.3. Is filters where I set this up. My email gets mail from several sources but I only want the OSS ones.

Depends on how you are accessing your mail. Kmail is a *local* reader/fetcher. You might set your linux laptop to *only* see mail from the interested lists and your other machine email client to *not* see mail intended for the laptop. There are *many* options but they depend on your present configuration of which you have not presented much information. (my crystal is broken). -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Saturday 15 November 2008 09:53:44 Keith B. Boykin wrote:

Kmail is set to read from my POP3 account (comcast.net). I want to download only OSS emails and delete them from the POP3 server after they have been downloaded. If this is a how-to please direct me to it.

Not a how-to, but a suggestion. (I *believe* what you're asking for is impossible with a single account, although I'll stand corrected if someone can show us how.) But why not just establish a different account to use for OSS emails? Comcast (here, at least) makes it easy to establish a number of different sub- accounts. I created one for my wife, and several for me, for special purposes, like corresponding on motorcycle-related mailing lists. If you create one that you just use for certain mailing lists (or just one), you could set it up as a separate account in KMail, download just those messages, and delete them from the server afterwards, and use your existing Comcast account(s) for other email. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2008-11-15 at 13:32 -0500, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

Duh, never of thought of that. That is exactly what I need to do. Yes, I have set up a comcast account for each of my 3 children and wife. So I will just set up one that says opensuse@comcast.net.

Yeah, and then you will get comercial requests sent to the OpenSUSE Manager at Comcast!

:-P

IMO, you'd better use something like kbboykin.os at comcast.net - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkfIzQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WwtwCfQMG9w61AfmjPsVZfX27naeet gMkAmgPfV73mzrQov+XbaA9LR31DMAdm =G8AR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Saturday 15 November 2008 12:56:39 Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday 15 November 2008 09:33, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

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On Saturday 15 November 2008 12:24:45 Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Note that KMail allows filters to be tested independently of the receipt of incoming mail. A filter may be marked as available in the Message (menu) -> Apply Filter (submenu) as well as being assigned a button in the toolbar.

Look in the "Advanced" tab of the Filter editor with the filter in question selected.

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:-D

RRS

I want to set this so that only mail from the opensuse list is downloaded to my laptop, which is a linux only laptop running OSS 11.1 B5 with KDE 4.1.3. Is filters where I set this up. My email gets mail from several sources but I only want the OSS ones.

I assume you're talking about a POP mail server. I've seen a feature that retrieves only headers (in Eudora, I think—it was a long time ago), but to my knowledge there is nothing of that sort available in KMail.

KMail _does_ have the ability to retrieve mail without deleting it from the server. That's what I use when I want to check mail from my laptop while out of the office (though that's not even a Linux system, let alone KMail, but it's a common option for POP mail clients). That option is configured in the Accounts section's Receiving tab for the account in question. From there, click Modify and select the "Leave fetched messages on server" check-box.

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Keith

Randall Schulz Randall,

Thanks. That is what I have set up. So I can't set it to only read headers that contain opensuse.org? Keith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Saturday November 15, 2008 13:51:48 Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday 15 November 2008 10:30, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

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On Saturday 15 November 2008 12:56:39 Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Saturday 15 November 2008 09:33, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

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I assume you're talking about a POP mail server. I've seen a feature that retrieves only headers (in Eudora, I think—it was a long time ago), but to my knowledge there is nothing of that sort available in KMail.

KMail _does_ have the ability to retrieve mail without deleting it from the server. That's what I use when I want to check mail from my laptop while out of the office (though that's not even a Linux system, let alone KMail, but it's a common option for POP mail clients). That option is configured in the Accounts section's Receiving tab for the account in question. From there, click Modify and select the "Leave fetched messages on server" check-box.

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Keith

Randall Schulz

Randall,

Thanks. That is what I have set up. So I can't set it to only read headers that contain opensuse.org?

I don't believe so, no. I'm familiar only up KMail 1.9.5 (KDE 3.5.5), though. Perhaps newer versions have such options.

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Keith

Randall Schulz Thanks for your help anyway Keith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Saturday, 2008-11-15 at 13:30 -0500, Keith B. Boykin wrote:

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I assume you're talking about a POP mail server. I've seen a feature that retrieves only headers (in Eudora, I thinkit was a long time ago), but to my knowledge there is nothing of that sort available in KMail.

There is/was an addition to kmail, an external program: kshowmail, that did just that. It is for manual use, not automated, I think (or that's what I use it for, at least). It doesn't come in the distro nowdays (it did).

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KMail _does_ have the ability to retrieve mail without deleting it from the server. That's what I use when I want to check mail from my laptop while out of the office (though that's not even a Linux system, let alone KMail, but it's a common option for POP mail clients). That option is configured in the Accounts section's Receiving tab for the account in question. From there, click Modify and select the "Leave fetched messages on server" check-box.

Which usually means "leave all on server", whereas Keith needs to be selective.

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Thanks. That is what I have set up. So I can't set it to only read headers that contain opensuse.org?

I believe you need a specialised downloader, that looks at the headers and download only selected emails. Something of the sort can be done by some programs that delete spam on the server, without downloading them in full, when they match certain criteria. I doubt you can adjust it for what you need. And it would work better with imap than with pop3.

Easier to create a new account, as Jerry recommended.

By the way, the header you'd need to search for is:

"X-Mailinglist: opensuse".

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Surprised that no-one has mentioned .... a) Getting Mail with fetchmail .... (As many accounts as you need when you need them) b) Filtering Mail with postfix/procmail (incoming mail from all accounts is sorted into local mail client folders by your own rules, as complex as you like them to be). c) reading mail locally with mail client. Though probably a bit of a steep learning curve for a newbie, using procmail is generally a more flexible approach than relying on the client to do the filtering because you can do a whole lot more than any client will let you do ... BTW with postfix in the laptop scenario one can also in principle compose replies offline that postfix can (automatically) send when a connection becomes available... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkf/qoACgkQasN0sSnLmgLyeACgvOV36tyRlULb5ylBOeUrAftY 838Anj5gtvWxlyODgckJ3rLUQhpj22DN =cfxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org