filter (?) on number of recipients?
This is prompted by my being part of a group that generating too much e-mail and, especially, mis-using REPLY ALL.
So I'd like to be able to filter on the number of recipients (either TO or CC). I'd like to give priority to e-mail that is addressed only to me and possibly one or two others. But these are not specific people. I want to give priority to e-mail from anybody if it is addressed only to me. And I want to ignore mail that has too many recipients even if one or two of them are very important people.
Even if I filter on members names, it still doesn't give me a count (I think). Is there a way to do this? Or is there some clever trick outside the filtering function that I'm not thinking of?
Desperate! Thanks for any ideas.
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Well, maybe not ignore. Maybe mark low priority. I don't want to be mean. ;-)
The only way I can think of is creating a filter on the To: or Cc: header and specifying a pattern with a number of commas, like *,*,*. Then you can change the priority with the filter action or move the message to a specific folder.
That is fascinating. Have you made this work? I never saw the use of wildcards in filters, but I'm game. I set up a filter for TO or CC -- *,*,*,* to move to another folder. I couldn't get it to run manually. But I actually control enough e-mail addresses that I could test it running auto. It did not. Thunderbird skipped over those messages and moved them elsewhere depending on filters lower on the list. I tried adding quotation marks and re-ran on the same messages, but some just moved according to filters even lower on the list.
This will be so great if I can make it work. You've got me so excited. Pleeeeeze... can you think of anything else I need to do?
Looks like out of the box you cannot filter on expressions, so you are stuck at filtering on To (or CC) contains a comma, but that probably selects too many messages.
Try the FiltaQuilla add-on, then you can do a regexp match on any header line…
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Your link took me to a domain registrar (I think). I'm extremely interested in the add-on. Can you supply a link?
Thanks.
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I'm back to thank you. The documentation for FiltaQuilla is so abysmal that I needed to find some time to figure it out. Trying to cope with it for several nights running when I needed sleep just led nowhere.
But I finally did get a little time to focus on it in the daytime and I got it working. Very useful.
So many many thanks, Jeanne