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18 Jun 2020, 07:13 PM | #16 |
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Does this effect you in real terms (I thought you only used your own scripts anyway)?
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18 Jun 2020, 07:32 PM | #17 | |
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If I had to choose something that did bother me a little however it's that new FM generated code for fileinto which has some additional options that I don't fully understand what problem they are trying to address (some edge with IMAP maybe?). I wish I understood that better not that I could do the same thing with any fileinto's I would code since I would have to know mailboxid's. Last edited by xyzzy : 18 Jun 2020 at 07:46 PM. |
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18 Jun 2020, 08:23 PM | #18 | |
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I wrote all all my rules myself (you helped me - thanks for that!) in the "old" system as it allowed me to do more sophisticated things and I merely copy/paste'd them into the new system - works fine. One of the reasons for sticking with my own code is that I can still do things like: if this and at least one of those 2: Code:
if allof( address :contains "From" [<email-1>, <email-2>], anyof( header :contains "Subject" [<word-1>, <word-2>], body :text :contains [<phrase-1>, <phrase-2>, <phrase-3>] ) ) { redirect :copy "<email-3>"; } |
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The reason I did the switch to "new" in advance was because I wasn't sure what was going to happen when they "shut" the door on going back to the "old". Were they going to map the "old" sieve code into the "new" (not possible for those that had code in the "old" middle edit blocks) as if you did the switch explicitly yourself or were they going to just start off with the base-line code with only the UI generated rules added (thus losing your own code additions)? Turns out if you were already using the "new" when they removed the ability to go back they simply used whatever you currently had so no copy/paste was necessary. For me it wouldn't have mattered too much anyway because I always keep a backup of my current sieve script (using "copy to clipboard" button at the top of the sieve script) and could of then pasted in from that. |
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19 Jun 2020, 03:29 AM | #20 |
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I have quite a lot of "if from this company move to that folder" type rules. I found it easier to keep them in alphabetical order and group by reason (eg "shopping"). It was easier to keep sorted and have comments etc in sieve. Only one or two rules required sieve because of their complexity (as per my earlier example).
It wouldn't allow me to upgrade until I had removed my own sieve. |
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19 Jun 2020, 07:23 PM | #22 |
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19 Jun 2020, 09:02 PM | #23 | |
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cheers. [edit:] No matter, I have replied to RelativeOfJack in that thread :-) Last edited by JamesHenderson : 19 Jun 2020 at 09:39 PM. Reason: added final sentence & 1 typo. |
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19 Jun 2020, 09:26 PM | #24 |
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I really don't understand this need to create aliases on the fly for each place that needs my email address. I've had the same Gmail address since 2006 and I have other email addresses I use for various things. Everything funnels to my Gmail Inbox. I get almost no spam in the Inbox. If I do get something I don't want I first try to unsubscribe using the links in the email or I can easily just block them in Gmail if someone still spams me. I've got a handful of blocks and they work perfectly. At work I do the same thing with Outlook/Exchange and it works almost as well, though Microsoft likes to put legitimate emails into the Junk folder. Creating all those aliases adds so much complexity, and it seems to indicate a failure of the basic email functionality of Junk/Spam filtering.
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23 Jun 2020, 12:44 AM | #25 | |
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It's still useful to be able to block spam without it ending up in the spam folder. When you get an FP it's much better that it's in a folder with a few spams rather than a few hundred. I'm not sure what used to happen with discard rules, but the new delete to trash occurs after spam filtering as do FMs workarounds. They only way to get the benefit of an empty spam folder is to discard/fileinto directly in sieve. Last edited by SideshowBob : 23 Jun 2020 at 07:36 AM. |
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