GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 203062
using data from contacts for filtering
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:46:18 UTC
It would be great to be able to make a filter using the data from contacts. For example being able to filter all messages from people that are on the personal categorie at contacts. Thanks and keep up the good work
I like this idea but it has to be a future feature because 1.0 is feature frozen.
Or even just "filter on whether they're in my contact list" like in bug 216891
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Seems like before anything can be implemented a more specific list of the abilities desired is needed. The common one (several dups) is the simple boolean "is" or "is not" "in my contact list" - which (as someone who's never poked around this bit of the code) seems pretty similar to the HTML image load setting (i.e. only load images if they're in my contact list). Another one would be to be able to match on contact categories - i.e. "is" or "is not" in category <foo> Those two would scratch my personal itch - anyone else got others?
This important feature is still missing as of 15 Nov, 2002. And I don not see it mentioned in the feature list of the newly released 1.2 Did sombody forget about this. I can predict with 95% acuracy that mail sent to me by somebody NOT in my contact list is SPAM!!!!! And if a person sends me a non-spam mail, and they are not in my contact list, evolution makes it so easy to add them to the contact list (i.e. immediately allow their subsequent mail to go to my "good-stuff" folder, and not to my "crap" folder). So why not alow this simple (at least in concept) filter to be added to evolution? Believe me, for a "home" type user, or for a business user, email from "contacts" is most likely important (or at least not spam), and email from unknown sources is most likely SPAM. Lets get this filter in the mix!!!!! I know it would be appreciated by a lot of people.
because it's not simple to implement :-) filtering happens inside of camel which MUST remain multithread-safe. Unfortunately, the addressbook is another program and in order to query it, we must make bonobo/corba calls - which are inherantly NOT thread-safe. This is a major problem that we will have to somehow work around...
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White list filtering is a good idea, but there are other spam-handling alternatives that are available in the interim. I've just started using <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter/">bogofilter</A> with Evolution, and from what I've seen so far it's a great way to handle spam. Just get and install bogofilter, and then create an Evolution filter that pipes email to the shell command using the bogofilter executable. If the result is 0, then bogofilter says it's spam and you can create filter actions to handle it. I still think filters on lists of addresses is a desirable feature. It would be great to sort incoming mail based on address collections or categories like "personal", "business", and so forth. However, I've come to believe that there are better ways to handle spam than white lists.
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So - any chance that the ideas being tossed around as part of the 2.0 work will allow this to be implemented? I've got a set of very simple rules that catch nearly all of my SPAM - the only one missing is "sender is not in my contact list."
Let's target this as 2.0.
Futuring. Unlesss this is being worked for 2.0 and I'm not aware. Please retarget if I'm wrong.
*** bug 217953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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still valid in evolution-2.1.4
And still valid in 2.2.2 I've switched from Thunderbird, and apart the missing « import from Firefox » functionnality, the only other thing I'm missing is the « filter mail if the From / To / Cc header contains / doesn't contain an address in my {choose the name of the adresse book here} adress book ». Didn't the work on evolution-data-server make it easier to add this functionnality ? Please tell me it will find its way through 2.3 :)
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Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/products/evolution/+bug/67685
I would like to add my vote for this feature. I am trying to move my wife to Linux, and she uses this as her primary spam filter. I guess I have to have her use Thunderbird to get this feature, which has been requested for six years! Rob
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Sorry to bump it, but I would like to add my vote to the bug being it a useful feature I'm missing since switching from thunderbird. Could it make it's way to GNOME 3? Cheers, Alessandro
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