[MlMt] Suppressing notifications

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Feb 9 13:28:42 EST 2016


Create a smart mailbox that has only the messages you want notifications 
about, then configure MailMate to do notifications on that mailbox 
instead of Inbox.  You can read stuff from your Inbox, though, just as 
before.

On 9 Feb 2016, at 12:47, Comic Sans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to suppress notifications for some of the new 
> messages in my inbox.
>
> I don't necessarily want to delete these messages, move them or mute 
> them (I do find muting partially useful here, but it works only for 
> threads). I want these messages in the inbox, unread, I just don't 
> want to receive notifications about them.
>
> This is mostly about some automated notifications that I do want to 
> read, but that are not urgent and in fact break my flow while working. 
> I understand how counters and notifications work, but using that 
> scheme would mean I would need to define a set of messages that I do 
> want to be notified about, while it should be much easier to do the 
> opposite.
>
> It seems like something that would ideally be done through rules, but 
> I'm not sure it's possible.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Mike
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