[SML] Filtering Gmail, &c...

[Dave Vick]

As reported earlier, the new SML listserver header structure appeared
to have broken Yr. Humble Narrator's killfile filters, thus revealing
the hidden ramblings from assorted few knuckle-heads (????) that I
choose not to dignify by reading (which is a bloody long way round
typing three names, but there y'go)...

SO ANYWAY..... The solution would be to filter via Reply-To, judging
by the data revealed in the expanded Gmail message title block, but
Google, in its infinite "wisdom", conveniently left the "Reply-To" off
of its list of acceptable criteria. The Filter block allows you to
filter by "From" and Subject, but no Reply-To header tag. How quaint.
Well, there's a way around it...

You create your own "Reply-To" filters by going into the standard
Gmail filter block, and in the line called "Has the words" you whip
out a little Linux voodoo...  Type "replyto:[*email address to
killfile*]" (without quotation marks, brackets, or asterisks) and
click "next" to advance to page 2 of the filterforge...  Select "mark
as read" and "Delete it" and there you have it: Instant SML-friendly
Gmail kill-filter.

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Dave Vick
IATSE #274, Michigan
517-749-3859