[ale] need some Evolution email magic

[Ron Frazier]

Michael,

Just thought I'd let you know, I'm in the process of switching to Eudora
Open Source Edition, so I can have all the advanced email filters I've
had for the last decade.  Right now, I'm running Evolution and Eudora.
That's really confusing.  I spent virtually all night setting it up,
after having done the same thing a week ago with Evolution.  Even though
I could run the several year old commercial version I had in Wine, it
wasn't handling TLS properly.  Eudora OSE appears to do that OK.  I was
frustrated to find out to find that my ISP doesn't support secure
authentication, which gives me pause when operating at a hotspot.

Check out https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE if you're interested.

They're working with the Thunderbird project now, but Eudora is
separate, and they've tried to bring almost all the functionality of the
old commercial product to the open source edition.  They're at version
1.0, so it's a work in progress.  I have some pretty advanced filtering
systems set up, as well as what I feel is a unique folder strategy.
I'll share this with the group if people are interested, although I'm
not sure it can be done by email.

Eudora has one key feature that lets me tackle my scenario 2 that I
mentioned before.  Say I get an email that I need to see, but once I've
seen it, it can be sent to a folder.  Eudora allows me to specify manual
only filters.  So, if I get an email from Sawnee EMC (my electric
company), I can have a manual only rule for it.  It will pop into the
inbox normally and be unaffected.  However, if I select it and press a
button on the toolbar to trigger the filter, which only works in manual
mode, the message will vanish to its designated folder.  This takes
quite a while to set up, but is quite handy.  I can select a whole batch
of messages at a time and do this.

I'll share more details on my exploits as I get them.  I'll try to do a
more comprehensive reply to some of your replies to me.

Sincerely,

Ron

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:34 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > 2) I get a number of routine messages from senders that I've given
> my
> > address, such as Verizon (ie - your bill is ready, etc.).  I want
> them
> > to come into my inbox, and I want to see them.  However, after I've
> seen
> > them, I no longer need them in the inbox in general.  On a typical
> day,
> > depending on the time of the month, I might get mails from Verizon,
> > Geico, Borders, Barnes and Noble, Best Buy, Solar Thermal Magazine,
> etc.
> > There may by 5-15 per day.  After a few days, the inbox gets
> crowded.
> > However, it's quite a pain to move each message to it's individual
> > folder every day.
> 
> As I mentioned above, I do manage this by hand.
> 
> This is precisely the type of task that an embedded interpreter would
> be
> useful for.  Actually, I don't know why this idea did not occur to me
> sooner.  I should look to see if something like this has been done;
> Evolution has a well-written plugin system.  It should be possible to
> create a plugin for Evolution where you can have little Python scripts
> that do very specific things, and have them bound to keys, so that you
> can have macros for things like "move message to folder" or "run the
> filters for this single message", and have things like manually
> triggered filters.
> 
> I will look into this sometime in the next two weeks.  I think this
> would be something worth spending my time on if it does not already
> exist somewhere; it'd be a huge time saver for me (and I suspect
> others,
> as well). 

-- 

(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.)

Ron Frazier

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