On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 11:47, Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates, formus, promotions. This is not reflected into IMAP, all these categories are just INBOX. This is my problem, gmail auto- categorizing magic is just too useful but only available through web I/F. I _could_ write filters in theory, but gmail magic is just so much better at it.
How much trust do you put in gmail in getting this automatic categorising correct?
With gmail I filter lists using the subject line when the list puts something like "[list-name]" in the subject, or other header data, but some list messages still show up in unexpected places.
I make filters for standard things (mailing lists, my service providers, etc), but I hand sort everything else because I wouldn't want important things misfiled. I don't even use spam filtering because I know that makes mistakes (in both direction), and it always will.
For my gmail (used mainly for list mails), the volume of spam is quite low. I have an address on a "community network" that gets much more spam. Firefox's trainable filter combined with the community network's filtering works reasonably well for me.