The signal:noise ratio on this list is terrible. I'm taking a vacation from it. Please, David Black, James Britt, or someone else trusted, email me when this nonsense is over... or at least better.
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Ryan Davis wrote:
The signal:noise ratio on this list is terrible. I'm taking a vacation from it. Please, David Black, James Britt, or someone else trusted, email me when this nonsense is over... or at least better.
could someone please show this guy how to use an "filter thread" email-filter?
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Hi,
Am Sonntag, 08. Mai 2005, 03:51:30 +0900 schrieb Ryan Davis:
The signal:noise ratio on this list is terrible. I'm taking a
vacation from it. Please, David Black, James Britt, or someone else
trusted, email me when this nonsense is over... or at least better.
Too bad that scanning mail bodies for the last name doesn't
suffice. Does anybody know of a better filter criterion? For
the present I have to delete everything containing even the
forename.
Bertram
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Depending on what sort of hooks you have for filtering: Emails usually contain an In-Reply-To header, which is what mail readers use for threading. So you could say "hide every email from a given person, and every email that responds to an email from that person as well". It's not perfect, but it'd be pretty good.
On May 7, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
Hi,
Am Sonntag, 08. Mai 2005, 03:51:30 +0900 schrieb Ryan Davis:
The signal:noise ratio on this list is terrible. I'm taking a
vacation from it. Please, David Black, James Britt, or someone else
trusted, email me when this nonsense is over... or at least better.Too bad that scanning mail bodies for the last name doesn't
suffice. Does anybody know of a better filter criterion? For
the present I have to delete everything containing even the
forename.Bertram
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Francis Hwang
Francis Hwang, May 8:
Depending on what sort of hooks you have for filtering: Emails usually
contain an In-Reply-To header, which is what mail readers use for
threading.
The References header is useful as well,
nikolai
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Hi Francis,
Am Sonntag, 08. Mai 2005, 10:13:05 +0900 schrieb Francis Hwang:
Depending on what sort of hooks you have for filtering: Emails usually
contain an In-Reply-To header, which is what mail readers use for
threading. So you could say "hide every email from a given person, and
every email that responds to an email from that person as well". It's
not perfect, but it'd be pretty good.
My Procmail could be configured calling just some Ruby
scripts. That leads me to the question: Is there something
like Getmail in Ruby?
Bertram
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Bertram Scharpf said:
My Procmail could be configured calling just some Ruby
scripts. That leads me to the question: Is there something
like Getmail in Ruby?
There's gurgitate-mail
(http://www.dagbrown.com/software/gurgitate-mail/\), though I never had
the chance to use it.
HTH
Andre
Nikolai Weibull, 08-05-2005 09:08:
Francis Hwang, May 8:
Depending on what sort of hooks you have for filtering: Emails usually
contain an In-Reply-To header, which is what mail readers use for
threading.The References header is useful as well,
nikolai
Nikolai, the "References" header is the only obvious way of doing it to keep track of the replies, so it's a lot more useful.
"Message-ID" for the one of the guy.
Is the references header the mail agents use to organize the mail in threads (some of them also use the subject).
Andre Nathan wrote:
Bertram Scharpf said:
My Procmail could be configured calling just some Ruby
scripts. That leads me to the question: Is there something
like Getmail in Ruby?
You could train your spam filter (I use POPFile) to flag Ilias-style threads as spam. It might work pretty well after you got through the training phase.
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Just as a datapoint, I simply made a filter to kill any email with
"Ilias" in it.
It's not perfect of course, but it *WELL* passes the 80/20 tests;
heck, even the 95/5 tests for "getting rid of enough to make the list
readable again".
Caio Tiago Oliveira, May 9:
Nikolai Weibull, 08-05-2005 09:08:
> Francis Hwang, May 8:
> > Depending on what sort of hooks you have for filtering: Emails
> > usually contain an In-Reply-To header, which is what mail readers
> > use for threading.
> The References header is useful as well,
Nikolai, the "References" header is the only obvious way of doing it
to keep track of the replies, so it's a lot more useful.
Yes, I know. It was Francis Hwang who only mentioned the In-Reply-To
header. I don't see why you are responding to me,
nikolai
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"Andre Nathan" <andre@digirati.com.br> writes:
Bertram Scharpf said:
My Procmail could be configured calling just some Ruby
scripts. That leads me to the question: Is there something
like Getmail in Ruby?There's gurgitate-mail
(http://www.dagbrown.com/software/gurgitate-mail/\), though I never had
the chance to use it.
There is! I use it for all my email. 
Now lemme see, does ruby-talk via email have the same References:
headers as it does on Usenet? I read it as comp.lang.ruby rather
than as the mailing list. (Gnus scorefiles are quite nice. Me, I
score Ilias threads *up* because I enjoy a good laugh.)
Anyway, in your .gurgitate-rules.rb, you'd want to do something like:
if to =~ /ruby-talk/ then
# deal with, er, a nuisance first (apologies to any others
# posting to ruby-talk via that host, though)
if headers["References"] =~ /usenet.otenet.gr/ or
headers["Message-ID"] =~ /usenet.otenet.gr/ then
delete
return # unless you really want to process these some more
else
return save("=ruby-talk")
end
end
If you want to grab your mail via POP from a mail server, you can
write something like this:
username='username'
password='password'
server='popserver'
require 'net/pop'
require 'gurgitate-mail'
Net::POP3.start(server,'pop3',username,password) do |popconnection|
popconnection.mails.each do |mess|
# This uses your .gurgitate-rules.rb to sort the messages
Gurgitate::Gurgitate.new(m.all.gsub(/\r/,'')).process
m.delete
end
end
But your own script might want to have more error handling in it
just in case things go wrong.
(Note: I consider downloading email message via pop or imap,
through gurgitate, to be such a simple task that I haven't even
bothered documenting it in gurgitate-mail. I suppose I should,
though, since people ask about it every now and then.)
--Dave
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