[MlMt] Mailing List Submailboxes - Fixing bad list-ids

[Ethan Schoonover]

Glad to hear some positive reports on usefulness!

This has also revealed several duplicates for me. Not as many as in your screenshot, but several.

I believe that the duplicates are purely down to the lists having different IDs (so a function of the Mailing List submailbox “for each” condition). I’m probably going to explore what the options are there next, though I suspect we might be limited somewhat in what we can achieve.

Best regards,
Ethan Schoonover
ethanschoonover.com



On 29 May 2021, at 17:07, Joseph P. Hillenburg wrote:

> Holy cow! I agree - this change is fantastic and should become part of the regular kit. My only thought it is that it would be nice if it did deduplication. For example (see screenshot)
>
> https://www.evernote.com/l/ABorwnw-h6ZOVJrKSK1kAJZXiskSd-Z-72EB/image.png
>
> -JPH
>
> On 29 May 2021, at 18:55, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>
>> I haven’t checked really close, but at a glance, this makes a huge difference!
>>
>> Thank you!
>> V
>>
>>
>>> On May 28, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Ethan Schoonover <es at ethanschoonover.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Do your MailMate mailing lists also contain lots of submailboxes named things like “15c317f52899487470ba6529” ?
>>>
>>> I couldn’t find an existing fix for the issue of the “Mailing Lists” smart mailbox submailbox names sometimes populating with hard-to-identify strings of alphanumerics from badly composed list-ids (the fault the the email list software generating the list, not MailMate, but still annoying to see).
>>>
>>> I worked up a new submailbox “Mailbox Name Format” specifier that fixes most of these here. I’d appreciate some feedback and tests. I can refine and document it here in this list thread after a little more testing.
>>>
>>> To test (these should be mostly obvious but I thought it best to be clear):
>>>
>>> first make a duplicate of your existing “Mailing Lists” smart folder
>>> right-click on it and choose duplicate
>>> don’t edit your original smart folder (so you can revert easily). use only the resulting “Mailing Lists (copy)”
>>> double click on your new duplicated smart folder “Mailing Lists (copy)” to open the edit window
>>> select the the submailboxes tab
>>> remove the existing “Mailbox Name Format” string
>>> replace with the following:
>>> ${from.address:+${list-id.description:?${list-id.description/^[a-z]*\d.*/${from.#correspondent.name:${from.address}}/}:${subject.blob:?${subject.blob:/capitalize}:${from.#correspondent.name:?${from.#correspondent.name:/capitalize}:${list-id.identifier.final-level:/capitalize}}}}}
>>> I’ll break this down and document it here after some more review and changes.
>>>
>>> Thanks to MailMate’s format string syntax, this was pretty straightforward.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ethan Schoonover
>>> ethanschoonover.com
>>>
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