I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are adequate, I still consider them suboptimal since I just hit 'delete' on most threads. I have a server receive all my mail and procmail it into topic folders. From there, five clients use offlineimap to keep a synchronised copy of the entire collection for use with mutt, and I also use webmail occasionally.
Ideally, I would like to be able to tag threads as 'ignored' and have them disappear and never show up again. I am currently playing with the thought of setting up some sort of shell script on the server that can take a criteria specification and turn it into a procmail filter to ensure that any further messages matching the criteria are sent to the void gap. On the client I would then use another shell script to create the criteria specification after being invoked on a message through a mutt keybinding, and pipe it via SSH to the server. However, the whole solution has a hack feel to it, and I think it's going to be very brittle. I am also not sure how to create the criteria. Using the subject does not really work reliably because of all the whack clients, and similarly for the MsgID/References headers. I am also afraid that I bog down the server if I keep programmatically increasing the ruleset of the procmail memory pig. I guess this could be solved by timing out entries in the ignore table after e.g. 30 days, but that's just another complexity I would love to avoid. Unfortunately, formail's msgid cache seems not to be tweakable to understand the notion of threads. So before I go and implement something to fit my needs, I would love to hear how other people address this challenge. One thought I had was to use an IMAP folder instead of the SSH communication thingie, so that messages can be moved there, get synchronised to the server, where a cron job picks them up and ensures that no related messages make it through procmail. This is trivial to implement as I already use it to train spamassassin and crm114 from the clients. Any input appreciated! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid/expired pgp subkeys? use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "the vast majority of our imports come from outside the country." - george w. bush
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