Re: [Pan-users] Re: Filters, Rules and Scores

[Tamblyne]

Duncan wrote:
> Tamblyne posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
> below,  on Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:36:28 -0500:
>
>
> > Hi -- I recently installed Pan 0.14.2.  
> >
> > I belong to several high traffic mailing lists which are mirrored on
> > Gmane.  I'm hoping to be able to follow these lists in the newsgroups
> > rather than dealing with 400-500 email messages per day.  Several people
> > in the OOo group recommended Pan.  
> >
> > But, of course, right off the bat I'm running into a problem.  I need to
> > use a filter/rule/score to identify an entry in the "Delivered-To" header,
> > but that option doesn't seem to be available.  
> >
> > Some of the people who posts to these lists are not subscribed, and this
> > is indicated in a second "Delivered-To" header which contains "moderator".
> > Ideally, I want to highlight the post in the header pane to indicate
> > this, so I know a response needs to be sent to their personal e-mail
> > address as well.  Others in the group are using KMail with a script, but
> >  I would like to avoid that if possible.  
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.  
>
>
> Unfortunately, PAN's current filters/scoring only works on headers
> available in the overview (as shown in the wrongly named header pane,
> with the exception of msgid and references), before the actual post is
> downloaded.
>
> I too have needed/wished-for/requested more powerful filtering/scoring
> criteria, available on the other headers and on the body itself, but
> Charles has made clear that while he doesn't disagree that it would be
> useful, it isn't a particular priority for him.
>
> Now PAN *IS* open source, and Charles DOES make it clear that patches for
> such "non-priority" items are welcomed and will likely be included if it
> doesn't clash with some other design priority or feature, but while I can
> sort of follow C code in source and patches, I don't claim to be a coder
> on my own yet, so I can't yet do anything to change the situation myself. 
> However, if you happen to be a decent C coder, as I said, patches are
> generally welcome, and if the approach is right, the solution should work
> for more than your specific problem, helping me as well.  So.. here's
> hoping..  =:^)

Hi, Duncan.

Thanks for the response -- though it was what I had feared, it wasn't 
really what I wanted to hear.  :)

My programming ability is not on the level that I would even attempt 
such a task.  I'm already laughed at because of my ears, I'm not 
throwing code into the mix, too.  :D

As you can see, I've already switched back to Mozilla.  After three days 
of trying to configure Pan and Evolution to WFM, I gave up and ran back 
home.  While it does have some irritating bugs, I can get it to do what 
I want it to do.  :)

It's too bad, too, because there are a lot of things I like about Pan -- 
most especially the fact that it is open source. But I know how it goes 
when there aren't enough chefs working in the kitchen.  :)

Thanks again, and I'll check back in a few months to see what's been 
going on with the versions to come.

Tam


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