Re: [Evolution] Tagging emails as important automatically

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Sonntag, den 30.06.2013, 11:23 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Mittelstaedt
> <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 29.06.2013, 13:47 +0100 schrieb Pedro Francisco:
> > > Hello!
> > > I was talking with a friend about the usefulness of Gmail's
> > > "Important" folder/tag (and most recently, the Social / Promotions /
> > > Updates / Forums folders/tags) and I was wondering how feasible would
> > > it be to implement such a mechanism by using a spam filter.
> > >
> > > The idea, speaking specifically for the "Important" tag, would be
> > > using a bogofilter / spamassassin configuration (independent from the
> > > one detecting spam) and training it to detect certain emails and
> > > attributing them the 'important' tag.
> > >
> > > Would this be feasible?
> >
> >
> > Sure, use message filters, available in the main menu under
> > Edit->Message Filters. Create a new rule, add action "Set Label".
>
> Ok, that's the manual way.
> I wanted to know if a more automatic way is possible.
>
> For example, in Gmail, I mark an email as 'Important' (not tag: I
> click on the 'box' [semi-square-losangle box] after the subject on
> conversation view).
> I do nothing more: I set _no_ keywords to be tracked, nor from fields.
> I just mark the email as 'important'.

Select the mail use the right mouse button select the context menu, set
label.

> Next time the topic is covered elsewhere (for example, a random
> iwl3945 driver thread on linux-wireless), as I have marked in the past
> an email with similar terms as Important, Gmail tags such mails as
> Important and they appear on the Important folder.
>
> I wanted to know if there was the possibility of getting the same
> functionality using some sort of combination of existing tools.
>
> --
> Pedro

The message filters do just that. Have you actually tried it out? You
set a condition for the email in question, e.g. "subject contains iwl39"
or "Label important is set". You can also trigger the message filters
manually by selecting a bunch of mails and hit Strg+Y. 
Should cover what you need. Just play around a little.

-- 
thomas