Re: Mailing Subject Format Inquiry

[Colin Campbell]

Peter Wright wrote:
> I've noticed this for a while with lilypond-user - like you, it's one
> of the minority of the mailing lists I'm on that *doesn't* use the
> subject prefix convention, so it's much less easy to do an
> eyeball-filter/scan as you describe.
>
> Colin's suggestion of filter rules to put things in different folders
> is fine, but that approach just doesn't work too well for me. I prefer
> to read (or at least scan) everything as it comes in - if the email's
> automatically sent off to another folder, I find I can just forget to
> check that folder.
>   
Just had a look at the options available in TB rule-triggered actions:

Move message to
Copy message to
Forward message to
Reply with template
Mark as read ( left unread by default)
Add star
Set priority to
Tag message
and others.

You can probably set up quite a sophisticated filtering system with a 
few mouse clicks: have some messages go to a folder (the folder name 
gets bolded while it contains unread mail, which is the visual cue to 
look in the folder), a subset of those messages could light up in a 
category relevant colour, others get copied to folder 2, still others 
get forwarded and deleted. The whole thing would become a very fast way 
of scanning your mail for noteworthy (oops, I meant LilyPond!) related 
stuff.

HTH
Colin