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On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:43:43 +0000 |
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Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> [OT] |
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> How should I set up KMail's filters to ignore not only an obnoxious |
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> contributor but all replies to him as well? Just filtering on his |
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> address anywhere in the headers is too coarse because interesting |
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> titbits sometimes appear in the conversation. |
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> [/OT] |
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In this case, he is the only poster (for at least the past couple |
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of years) who has "verizon.net" in his message-ids. If you only want to |
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filter immediate replies to him, match that string at the very end of |
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the References header, something like the regex verizon\.net>$ . |
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If you want to be more thorough, also filter for it in In-Reply-To |
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headers. I'm not familiar with KMail, so I can't give exact syntax. |
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This approach isn't foolproof -- not all clients send References or |
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In-Reply-To headers. Also, if another Verizon user comes along, you'll |
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miss replies to her. |
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FWIW, I find that even direct replies often contain interesting titbits, |
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so I'm just marking everything downthread a different color, making it |
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easy to skip if I'm not in the mood for the drama. |
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