[fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

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On 2017-05-26 10:27, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 5/26/2017 4:36 AM, wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
>> 
>> hahaha... nope... just experienced readers of messages who have
>> learned how to work through them fairly quickly and easily... i will
>> grant that it does take an hour or two... if i'm offering someone some
>> help and have to go write code, i do that over several days... even if
>> it means skipping some reading a day or two...
> And on top of that, experienced enough to use a proper email client,
> with proper message filtering, instead of (ab)using a web browser just
> just another task... ;-)
> 
> Ralf
> 

Indeed I hate web based programs of all kinds, but, after lots of my 
email clients corrupted their databases which were not in plain text and 
I lost my emails, I started using web servers and web programs as email 
clients for lots of email.  Thunderbird was an option, as AFAIR you 
could store email as plain text, which is easier to recover if there is 
a failure, but thunderbird, was bloated and took up way too much memory.
Sylpheed claws was another one I was interested in, as it had one of the 
most advanced "Rule" system to automate tasks. More advanced than any I 
could find.. it has changed names to claws-mail


However, IMO it has nothing to do with filtering out email because you 
still have to read the email lists and read through emails no matter how 
much you filter things. It's not like you can magically guess that "all 
emails regarding anything to do with VARARGS I want to delete" because 2 
months later you may need varargs help. Or, it's not like you can 
magically guess that you don't want any emails coming in that have 
anything to do with fixed arrays, because you don't use fixed arrays - 
but maybe you will in 2 months!

Setting up thousands of filters is a time waster too...

But, this does bring me back to the sylpheed claws exploration days when 
I was really into automating email rules using advanced 
filtering/rulesets. I don't use them much any more but I used to use 
them like crazy