[Elecraft] K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

[Fred Jensen]

T-bird works super ... mine sorts my mail into various folders and even 
sub folders.  It seems that enough people put the Elecraft model number 
in the subject line that virtually all mail related to that item goes to 
the right folder.  I've found that using the message body is somewhat 
less reliable as someone may drop a "K4" into an email relating to a 
K3.  I'm sure most other email clients can do this as well including web 
mail clients.  I recommend you concentrate on the subject line and keep 
it simple.

I have also filtered a few "from" addresses directly to trash because 
the emails are often argumentative, political, or otherwise unfriendly.  
That doesn't happen much on this list.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 10/5/2020 11:20 AM, N4ZR wrote:
> Nope, it's not Thunderbird, which has a rich set of filters to trash 
> or transfer e-mails by content of title or body or sender or ...
>
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> On 10/5/2020 1:58 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
>> If you can’t send posts with ‘K4' in the title or text to the trash, 
>> then there’s something wrong with your mail client's filter.  I’m not 
>> familiar with Thunderbird, so maybe there’s an issue there.
>>
>> I routinely read maybe 20% of the posts I receive from the many 
>> (20+?) reflectors I subscribe to. (or .. 'to which I subscribe”,  to 
>> use what was once called proper grammar).  In any case, DEL is the 
>> best approach, like it or not.  I often read posts that some filter 
>> would have discarded .. and learn something useful.  There were even, 
>> at times, some senders who’s emails I might have filtered out.  But 
>> even those are, far more often than not, highly informative and 
>> useful, and I get past the occasional condescension, and don’t.
>>
>> I know this isn’t what you wanted to hear.
>>
>> Grant NQ5T
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 5, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Mike Harris via Elecraft 
>>> <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have no interest in K4 postings. I have tried all sorts of 
>>> combinations of mail filter setting to dispose of K4 posts without 
>>> success.
>>>
>>> I'm sure someone out there has managed to do this. If so please 
>>> advise how you did it.
>>>
>>> Please don't suggest the delete key, I'm familiar with that.