[kdepim-users] Monitoring my mailing list threads in KMail

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 25 October 2008 18:56:36 Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 22:35:15 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > On Thursday 23 October 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2008 19:09:05 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > > > On Friday 17 October 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > > > Is there a way to make kmail make a thread being watched once my
> > > > > email address is in it? Would make it a lot easier to monitor
> > > > > threads I participate in.
> > > >
> > > > You can use a filter to mark messages coming from the mailing list
> > > > and being sent by you as watched.
> > >
> > > Thinking of that I could simply mark threads as "watched" when "from"
> > > contains my email adress alone, no need to check for mailing list
> > > headers since when "from" is me - then it's for a mailing list
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > The question is: where do I put that filter? Before any other filter?
> >
> > Yeah, I'd say so.
> >
> > > Will the rest of the thread then still be marked as watched?
> >
> > That's a good question. I have no idea, but I guess you'll see what
> > happens.
>
> Happen just as I imagined: my message is marked, but not the whole thread.
> I'd have to extract the message ID I guess and mark all messages with that
> ID but that would mean filter the entire ordner.

What about creating a filter based on a header content, such as 

Anywhere in Headers     Contains     References: 
<200810172341.01704.Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de>

As long as the thread doesn't get broken that should give you the whole 
thread.  Set it to stop processsing when it finds a match.  That shouldn't 
slow you down at all.

Anne
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