[MlMt] the "mailbox from certain contacts" question

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 21 Feb 2017, at 17:44, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2017, at 23:41, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for ways to have a mailbox that shows any email from a 
>> specific group of people, similar to VIP in iOS or apple mail.
>>
>> I know its been asked a few times in the past and it is not there but 
>> I'm getting tired of maintaining both a list in both mailmate and 
>> busycal for my list of people.
>>
>> I was wondering if there was a way to get mailmate to look at the 
>> contents of a text file ? Then I could just extract the list of 
>> emails from busycal and only have to maintain the "VIP" list in one 
>> place.
>
> I assume what you mainly need is for these emails to be tagged as VIP 
> or maybe Important (in Gmail language). This could be done by a custom 
> bundle command which is run by a rule on all incoming messages. Should 
> I create an example framework for you and then you can fill in the 
> holes?

Sure.

Note, Its not "important", its more like VIP - but I have a few set of 
people I do this for. Basically list of contacts that are family, list 
of people that my team, list of people that are VIP and I have a folder 
for each so I can ignore or react accordingly ;)

/max
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