[MlMt] Grouping mailing lists

[Robert Brenstein]

Well, it is a one-time effort to set up the structure. Adding a new list 
later is just adding a new list-id condition or a new smart mailbox. The 
rest follows automatically. Settings things up in MailMate may indeed be 
a tad more involved than in other mail clients but MailMail focuses on 
features for power users and offers a bunch of options not available in 
other mail clients. I haven’t seen a client yet that has more 
feature-rich and very fast smart mailboxes, for example, handling my 
100k emails without any hesitation.

On 11 Sep 2019, at 15:57, Charlie Clark wrote:

> On 11 Sep 2019, at 15:26, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>
>> Have you tried without tagging? Here are more or less the steps to 
>> follow:
>>
>> 1. create a mailbox “mailinglists”
>> 2. on the tab “mailboxes” check the checkbox “include messages 
>> in any submailboxes of this mailbox”
>> 3. inside this mailbox, create a separate smart mailbox for each of 
>> your mailing lists
>> 4. create a mailbox “new mail”
>> 5. set the “mailboxes” tab to have
>>    all of the following mailboxes
>>       All Messages (or Inbox)
>>       None of the following mailboxes
>>          Mailing lists
>> I hope the indentation carries through properly as it is critical.
>
>
> It did, though you might find the markdown syntax useful:
>
> https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#lists
>
> Though I've found the preview function so sluggish, I generally have 
> it disabled. Mind you, I've been using plaintext markup for **years**. 
> :roll: ;-)
>
>> 6. You can set on the “Conditions” tab “Message not Read” to 
>> see only unread messages
>>
>> The “New Mail” mailbox should show all your mail except those 
>> that are in your mailinglists.
>
> Yes, I worked that out. But I was looking for a way of doing this 
> without creating a slew of new mailboxes, ie. sticking as close to 
> what I'm used to as possible. The way Opera Mail does this very 
> similar to MailMate but I'd argue slightly more intuitive, though it's 
> more restricted in other ways, such as being able to create views from 
> a search.
> ![](cid:CE66F5CC-B44D-4C4B-AB58-5844DBF16DDD at begeistert.org 
> "Bildschirmfoto 2019-09-11 um 15.50.50.png")
>
> The current setup is to create folders (smart mailboxes without 
> criteria) and add individual lists to these (find isn't brilliant for 
> these). These can then be excluded from the catch all mailing list.
>
>> For 2 and 3, you can use the simpler setup suggested earlier if your 
>> mailinglists are uniform and can be all identified within a single 
>> smart mailbox. In my case, for some lists I use List-Id, for others 
>> from-address, for others to-address, for some I need to additionally 
>> check for an identifier in the subject.
>
> Fortunately, all the ones I have can be correctly identified via a 
> list-id header, though auto-completion doesn't work that well.
>
> Still, given that I only started with the program on Monday, I'm 
> really enjoying it. :-)
>
> Charlie
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