On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:17:03PM -1000, Dan Brickley wrote:
:
> In Pine, I can hit '|atw' and get the sender of a
> msg added to my whitelist. I'm not sure yet how best to replicate this
> in Mozilla, so was wondering if folk here had any experience, ideas...
> Mechanisms I'd thought of:
>
> ~ * save a copy of msg to a 'sender-now-known' folder, have a
> ~ mailserver crontab harvest the sender addresses into my whitelist
> ~ periodically
This one seems good to me; I suggested something like that before
internally at W3C as a way of approving messages that were bounced
to list maintainers when their MUA doesn't have a bounce/resend
feature. (save them to a special IMAP mailbox that periodically
has anything saved there approved and purged.)
> ~ * use the labelling facility built into Mozilla mail ('todo', 'urgent'
> ~ etc categories come pre-installed), and similarly harvest these on
> the server.
> ~ * hack something directly into the Mozilla UI (eg. a right-click
> option). This seems (a) too hardcore (b) to duplicate similar
> functionality, eg labelling.
heh... this use of 'hardcore' earned 0.8 spamassassin points.
(rule PORN_11, "Uses words and phrases which indicate porn" :)
Fortunately your PGP signature earned -2.1.
> ~ * use Pine once a day to deal with spam whitelisting
>
> So the nice thing about running the 'atw' script from Pine was the
> potential for cheap/easy extensions. I could imagine spending an hour
> or so building a similar gadget that created further metadata about
> received msgs or their senders, eg. a 'mailtodo' script that stashed
> the msgid, a category and a comment, eg 'someday-pile: reply to gerald's
> p2p msg with url for sha1 rdf example queries'. I've no idea yet how
> I'd do such a thing in Mozilla. Saving to folders, or fwd'ing to a
> special address seems the easiest (and most mail-client independent) way
> to proceed.
> Suggestions welcomed! What is everybody else doing?
You should bug the mozilla developers to make it easy to pipe
messages to external scripts, by right-clicking and/or binding
that function to a certain key.
In Mutt I can tag a few dozen messages and then pipe each one of
them to a script with about 3 total keypresses :)
> ps. sorry if this turns up in HTML format with terrible line
> wrapping. still learning the ropes...
looks good... and I hope the mailman non-subscriber approval step
didn't mangle the PGP signature.
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Gerald Oskoboiny <
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