Re: maildrop feature request

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:20:31 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.maildrop
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Philippe Cerfon writes:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> >> Have there been any news over the years on this front? I.e. the
> >> problem on how to flag mail's as (S)een, (A)nswered, (D)eleted, etc. ?
> >> That seems to pop up every now and then again here, there are probably
> >> countless of blog entries where people complain about that issue :-(
> > Haven't seen that topic come up in a number of years, actually. I still
> > think that this is a solution in search of a problem.
> There's for example, "[maildropl] Marking a message read when
> delivering to a Maildir" right here on the list, from e.g. 2014
>
> And as I've said, countless of blog posts, etc. which deal with that issue.
>
> Also I don't know how you come to idea that this should be the search
> of a problem.
> Setting these flags seem to be one of the most basic featurs,
> supported by sieve, or any MUA's internal filtersystem.
> And it makes perfectly countless of use cases:
> - e.g. automatically (f)lagging messages, based on e.g. From
> - when maildrop is e.g. used to automatically reply to certain mails
> (via passing them on to some scripts or so), may be desired to have
> them marked (A)nswered
> - when having high volume mailing lists subscribed, one may want to
> mark most messages (S)een since one isn't interested in them, except
> those which are e.g. directly To:ed to one self, or which include
> certain keywords, etc. pp

Why would delivering messages to the appopriate folder, instead, be a  
problem?

Simply delivering the messages to the appropriate folder seems to be a more  
useful disposition.

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