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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.

Regards,

Mike VP8NO
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Grant Youngman-2

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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 <[hidden email]> 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.
>

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Steve KC6ZKT

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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I use Thunderbird on some of my machines, Apple Mail on others.

Because Apple Mail leaves even much more to be desired than Thunderbird,
I was using procmail on my ISP's server to do all of my filtering to
mailboxes. Later, the authors stopped maintaining it, and I switched to
a similar, more up-to-date tool. I recommend that you ask your ISP what
they have installed. If they're running Linux, then they might have
Pigeonhole [ https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org ] available.

It's much cleaner to do all of the filtering at my mailbox, rather than
on each desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone I might want to access it from.

On 10/5/20 10:22 AM, Mike Harris via Elecraft 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike VP8NO

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N4ZR

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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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 ...

73, Pete N4ZR
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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 <[hidden email]> 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.
>>
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Don Wilhelm

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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Mike,

Easy with Thunderbird,

Make a filter for your incoming mail - If the subject line contains K4,
move it to whichever folder you would like.

That will work as long as everyone puts 'K4' in the subject line. For
the rest, you will have to use the Delete key.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/5/2020 1:22 PM, Mike Harris via Elecraft wrote:

Mike VE3YF

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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Mike:

Have you tried something called Mailwasher. I can set it up with
filters. Best things I can look thru all my emails while they are on the
server and delete anything I want before it hits my computer. Good for
getting rid of spam and virus etc/

--

*73 De Mike*
*VE3YF

_/http://www.ve3yf.com/_*

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k6dgw

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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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 ...
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> 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
>>> <[hidden email]> 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.

Gwen Patton

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

I just use GMail. I scroll through my emails and look at the subject. If it
has something in it I don't want to read, I check the box at the left.
After I go through all of them that way (not even opening them yet), I
click the "mark as read" button. All the marked emails get moved out of my
inbox to the "read" portion. They aren't gone, I can go back and read any
of them if I want to, but I don't have to read them NOW. I go to the bottom
of my remaining unread emails, open the last one, and read it. Then I hit
the arrow at the top right, and move to the next email. Lather, rinse,
repeat.

Not all that hard.

If there is something that pops up frequently, I create a filter for it,
and just mark it as read. On rare occasions, I make a folder and send the
offenders to Coventry. Other than that, I read pretty much everything else.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
73,
Gwen, NG3P

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:06 PM Fred Jensen <[hidden email]> 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.
>
> 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 ...
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> > Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> > at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> > spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> > For spots, please use your favorite
> > "retail" DX cluster.
> >
> > 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
> >>> <[hidden email]> 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.
>
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Jim Brown-10

Re: K4 mail filter for Thunderbird

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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

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