Wish: expanding the idea of matching regular expressions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mail Notification |
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Bug Description
[This is related to Bug #242442 (Wish: ignore spam).]
We all receive too much email and don't want to be disrupted by each incoming message.
So, mail-notification could help all us to avoid this information overload by just popping up those messages that are important according to some criteria. The idea is to turn mail-notification into a sort of "personal agent" or "butler."
Probably the nicest way to implement this would be to create a tab where the user can specify rules of the form:
[sender|
Some examples of rules could be:
- sender contains "<email address hidden>"
- subject contains "lunch"
- subject does not contain "[spam]"
- body does not contain "X-Spam-
A simpler solution would be to just present a big text box where the user can write any arbitrarily complex regular expression.
Finally, it would be really nice if the counter of received emails could be configured to just count the number of unread emails that have matched these rules.
Many thanks for your excellent program.
In CVS I've added a GConf key accepting a list of regular expressions specifying messages to ignore. You'd just like to have an UI for it, or am I missing something?