[MlMt] These filters are awesome, but also confusing to me.

Seebs mailmate-list at seebs.net
Wed Jan 11 17:36:42 UTC 2012


On 11 Jan 2012, at 7:28, Mike Brasch wrote:

> On 11 Jan 2012, at 8:54, Seebs wrote:
>
>> So I really do want to just move spam to the junk bin unread.
>
> Why do you not filter on server? My provider (fastmail.fm) lets me 
> filter via the filter language SIEVE. All my filtering is done 
> directly on server. Especially mailing lists are sorted by server, so 
> I'm not bothered by this on my smart phone.

Ahh, see.  Move to junk bin isn't the same as discard.  I keep old spam 
so I can check whether I've seen something before, look to see what 
addresses are being hit, and so on.  I don't want to read it, but I do 
want it in the mail system for me to look at later.

-s


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