Vaughn Treude wrote:

>On Saturday 31 July 2004 13:32, you wrote:
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>>>>While the suggestion below is valid and helpful,
>>>>it is, I believe, not the most efficient way to handle
>>>>this matter.  I think Vaughn's idea has great potential
>>>>because I imagine his 'mbex' utility is or can be a
>>>>invoked as either a command line utility or perhaps
>>>>a cron invoked utility and thus could be used to take
>>>>care of a lot of things that creating kmail filters are
>>>>much slower and more cumbersome to accomplish.
>>>>
>>>>I continue to waste a huge amount of time creating filters
>>>>(both at my ISP's end) and with kmail filters and I still
>>>>can't get ahead of the game.  I can imagine that what
>>>>Vaughn has described could potentially be adapted to
>>>>accomplish a lot of this much more efficiently.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>You're right about that, Joe.  I'm aware that filters can be useful.  My
>>>problem is that I often get into a situation where I "should have"
>>>created a filter earlier, that is, I didn't realize beforehand I'd need a
>>>separate folder.  Same goes for Craig's suggestion, though perhaps
>>>Evolution would be a better choice than kmail.  I also definitely want my
>>>contact list in a separate document, though I might be able to accomplish
>>>that by exporting to a text format and the reimporting.  OTOH, Craig also
>>>mentioned that there are "a lot of mbox tools."  That was what I wanted
>>>to avoid doing over.  Like I said, I encountered two possible candidates,
>>>but they seemed to be incomplete or stalled.  I will check again though,
>>>and try some different search terms.
>>>      
>>>
>>If Kmail works like Mozilla/Thunderbird in regards to filters, then you
>>should be able to create a rule at any time and run it against a current
>>mbox folder. I do this all the time with Mozilla since I sign up for
>>mailing lists and then after receiving a few messages decide how to filter
>>those messages into their own folder (e.g. something in the subject, the to
>>address, the from address, etc...).
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>
>Kevin,
>Thanks for the suggestion.  I was able to easily create a filter rule, but it 
>didn't transfer my existing messages that matched the filter criteria.  Does 
>Mozilla do that?  That would be cool indeed.   I assume that these would end 
>up in a new mbox file.   That's OK, but for me there is still a bit of 
>utility in extracting emails as separate files, and in automagically saving 
>the attachments.  It would save space (especially since my program would 
>delete the header's routing information by default - and also by converting 
>attachments back to binary) and make it possible to use all the text tools 
>I'm accustomed to.  These files would also be more exportable to other 
>systems, since you wouldn't need an email client to read them.  Anyhow, I'll 
>continue to work on mbex for my own purposes at least, unless I find some 
>other way to auto-extract the messages.
>
>Vaughn
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Mozilla does indeed run the filter rules on the inbox and all subfolders 
post rule creation.
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