[Elecraft] K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

[Jim Brown]

On 10/5/2020 12:06 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> 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.

Agreed on all counts. I read more than two dozen email reflectors, and 
Thunderbird makes it easy to to sort each into its own mailbox. I've 
never used it to sort topics, but agree that the Subject Line is the 
ideal sort range. I use subject line sorts to sort to the mailboxes.

Thunderbird is very versatile -- it can be set to read by thread, or by 
individual emails. I strongly prefer the latter, because it's easier to 
delete stuff that strays off topic.

> I have also filtered a few "from" addresses directly to trash because 
> the emails are often argumentative, political, or otherwise unfriendly.

I've never done that -- my delete key works fine.

On 10/5/2020 12:55 PM, Gwen Patton wrote:

 > I just use GMail.

I use it only for my gmail address. Compared to Thunderbird, it's brain 
dead.

73, Jim K9YC