[Design] request for mailing list manager

[Arnulv Rudland]

> > details.  Depending upon *anything* except the "From " line
> (as  opposed
> > to the "From:" line) is generally a bad idea.)
> >
> >
> >>  It would be very cool if Chandler automatically created an
> >> appropriate View for a mailing list when an email message
> that has an
> >> unfamiliar List-Id header is first received.
> >
> > Great idea!!

And also very elegant!

I am missing this kind of meta-filter message handling badly in Outlook.
Michael R. Bernstein's idea can be seen as the special case of the more
generalized case

    if ( some wildcard matching condition is true ) {
        if ( specific view matching the condition does not exist ) {
            create the view
        }
        include the message into the view
        optionally exclude the message from the inbox
    }

In the special case of mailing lists such a rule/action set should be
included as a predefined filter in the out-of-the-box version of Chandler.

( A second idea about mailing lists here: a combination of ``Subject:
[<topic>]´´ and ``List-*:´´ rules would probably be even better )

This filter - as any other predefined must of course be optional.

[ see further customization discussion in a separate posting ]


Another example for the usage of the same mechanism is the to automatically
create a view for a project when the subject line matches a specific regular
expression rule e.g. "([0-9]{3})-([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})", which in the case
of "Subject: 105-2002-17: Customer request" could be used to create a
Project view "/Projects/Actual/2002/17/105" and including the message to it.

All subsequent messages containing the same subject pattern would be added
to the same view.

The filter engine should contain easy mechanisms, ideally checkable options
for each filter to include a) the sender and b) all recipients to the view

Further checkable options could be c) to create a specific filter from the
meta filter (i.e. instantiate) and d) perform other specific actions on view
creation (some built-in/plug-in here).


Regards

Arnulv Rudland