mutt workflow and mail filtering

[benfitzg at gmail.com]

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 09:09:09PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 12May2019 17:38, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
> > On 11May2019 20:58, benfitzg at gmail.com <benfitzg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I just want to have something look at the headers of every mail that
> > > comes into my INBOX and then put *some* of those in another Maildir,
> > > all of which reside on the same filesystem under the same subfolder.
> [...]
> > I think if I give my mailfiler some kind of "pass" rule it should be
> > capable of this. Give me a few days. The cleanest thing is probably to
> > support the having default target be the current folder. Then a rule
> > file specifying only the things to move would suffice.
> 
> This is now implemented and somewhat tested. The special target "." means
> "file the message in the current mail folder". So for your scenario you'd
> use a rules file like this:
> 
>  DEFAULT=.
>  rule to file some messages
>  another rule
>  etc...
> 
> If nothing matches the default leaves the message in the current folder and
> mailfiler knows to not consider it again.
> 
> This does want mailfiler run in its usual daemon mode where it polls the
> maildir regularly because the set of messages "left behind" is kept in
> memory.
> 
> OTOH, running mailfiler once should leave the message alone because it
> doesn't match a rule; it just wastefully consideres it every time your
> invoke it.
> 
> PyPI's been updated with the new release.

Hi

thanks, I really don't mean for you to go to any effort on my part, though I
suspect you also have this as a hobby project and like developing it!

I think for my work this project simply has too many dependencies, and I'll
probably end up rolling something of my own using this?

https://docs.python.org/2/library/mailbox.html

It's interesting stuff, and I've enjoyed the chat, and learned a fair bit also!

Cheers,

-- 
Ben Fitzgerald