[MlMt] Utterly baffled by Mailing Lists

[Paul Atlan]

Marc, this is very elegant.
I'm trying it ASAP.
Thanks
P.

On 4 Apr 2021, at 13:54, Marc ARC wrote:

> Paul,
>
> What I use to filter out (marketing)mailing lists from my inbox is the 
> following:
>
>
> I defined a Marketing mailbox where I drop a (the first?) mail from 
> that source
>
> I defined a condition based rule on my inbox:
> - if source is in Marketing mailbox
> - then move to Marketing mailbox ( or Auto_Marketing mailbox° )
>
> By setting up submailboxes (on the sender) you can then easily see 
> what is related to which list/sender.
>
> Or on the marketing mailbox you can setup a definition based rule to 
> move the mails to other mailboxes
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Marc
>
>
> On 26 Mar 2021, at 10:28, Paul Atlan wrote:
>
>> I’m trying to sort my mailing lists into something halfway 
>> manageable and readable.
>> If I use the “out of the box” Mailing List mailbox, with the 
>> following settings:
>> Sort for unique values of List-id > description
>> And name mailboxes as:
>> ${list-id.description:${subject.blob:?${subject.blob:/capitalize}:${list-id.identifier.final-level}}}
>> I get a baffling array of names such as:
>>  * 420a598457b46e0aa26a7a673mc list
>>  * 15marches.substack.com
>>  * 245.44880.info.alternatives-economiques.fr
>>  * 245.44922.info.alternatives-economiques.fr
>>
>> It seems some people use the list-id to name their lists, others an 
>> identifier, others yet a url ….
>> And basically, whatever item I choose to sort by, or rename by, I’m 
>> never going to get a proper list of names.
>> 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 …
>>
>> 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….
>>
>> I can’t imagine, with the number of power users using MailMate, 
>> that there aren’t some interesting solutions around …
>>
>> Paul.
>
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