Mail Lists wrote:
> Every once in a while I want to not read any posts or any followups
> when they are initiated by a certain person - or on a specific topic/
> Topics are easy to killfile coz we only need to match the subject.
>
> Anyone got any ideas (procmail probably simplest) how to kill an entire
> mail thread if that thread is started by a specific email address ?
I've got one, and it looks quite a bit like what you outlined below in
psuedo-code. ;)
In my procmail config, I have these two recipes:
# drop mail from anyone in the killfile
:0 W
* ? formail -x"From" -x"From:" -x"Sender:" -x"Reply-To:" -x"Return-Path:" \
| egrep -is -f $HOME/.procmail/killfile
{
# add it to the killthread cache
:0 Wic: killthread.lock
| formail -D 40960 $HOME/.procmail/killthread.cache
:0
killfiled/
}
# drop threads started by anyone in the killfile
:0
* ? formail -c -x 'References' -x 'In-Reply-To' | thread-kill
killfiled/
The thread-kill script is a little bit of python:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
verbose = False
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
if sys.argv[1] == '-v':
verbose = True
cache = os.path.expanduser('~/.procmail/killthread.cache')
if not os.path.exists(cache):
raise SystemExit(1)
killed = [i for i in open(cache).read().strip('\x00').split('\x00') if i]
if verbose:
print killed
print
msgids = [i for l in sys.stdin.readlines() for i in l.split() if i]
if verbose:
print msgids
print
for m in msgids:
if verbose:
print 'checking if %s matches...' % m,
if m in killed:
if verbose:
print 'yes'
raise SystemExit(0)
elif verbose:
print 'no'
raise SystemExit(1)
My $HOME/.procmail/killfile generally just contains a few email
addresses, though it could contain regular expressions if more
flexibility is desired.
> I think the logic could be something like ( there may be better
> ways to do this)
>
> If (<from> matches <target>)
> append Message-ID to message_id_list
> junk message.
>
> Loop (ID from message_id_list)
> If (any mail has References matching ID
> junk message;
>
>
> Of course message_id_list is a growing list and should probably be
> culled every week (or something).
The beauty of using formail's -D option is that it will do this
culling for you, based on size.
Fortunately, I don't feel the need to use this very often, so I have
not gotten around to improving it much in a long time. One minor
improvement I intend to make some afternoon is to add a mutt macro to
drop message-ids for threads I want to die directly into the the
killthread cache.
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