<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I’m trying to sort my mailing lists into something halfway manageable and readable.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">If I use the “out of the box” Mailing List mailbox, with the following settings:<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">Sort for unique values of List-id > description<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">And name mailboxes as:<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">${list-id.description:${subject.blob:?${subject.blob:/capitalize}:${list-id.identifier.final-level}}}<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I get a baffling array of names such as:<br></div><ul><li style="font-family:Verdana;" dir="ltr">420a598457b46e0aa26a7a673mc list<br></li><li style="font-family:Verdana;" dir="ltr">15marches.substack.com<br></li><li style="font-family:Verdana;" dir="ltr">245.44880.info.alternatives-economiques.fr</li><li style="font-family:Verdana;" dir="ltr">245.44922.info.alternatives-economiques.fr</li></ul><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">It seems some people use the list-id to name their lists, others an identifier, others yet a url ….<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">And basically, whatever item I choose to sort by, or rename by, I’m never going to get a proper list of names.<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I’ve tried to rename some of the lists, which would work except … some list managers seem to change list-id’s every few mails, so I have mailing lists spread over many separate mailboxes …<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I’ve started building rules to identify and tag each and every newsletter, but this is brittle (the ux being what it is, it’s difficult to have rules with more than 4 or 5 conditions, so I’ve spread out the newsletters over multiple rules), any new newsletter needs to go through a process….<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">I can’t imagine, with the number of power users using MailMate, that there aren’t some interesting solutions around …<br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Verdana;">Paul.</div></body></html>