It also mentions “Mac OS X”, and points you to the “International” panel in System Preferences:
The date format can be adjusted under the “Format” tab.
Category: e-mail
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Apache SpamAssassin
- http://spamassassin.apache.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_SpamAssassin
- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/UsedViaProcmail
- https://wiki.hostsharing.net/index.php?title=Procmail
- https://wiki.hostsharing.net/index.php?title=Spamfilter
- https://www.hostsharing.net/features/spamassassin/
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the Roundcube Webmail IMAP client: how to undelete messages
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundcube
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/1635
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/5133
It is not really obvious how to undelete messages with Roundcube. But it works:
- click on the icon!
- do not search for “Mark as undeleted“!
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horde / IMP / New Message / Save Draft – a shortcut in “dynamic mode”
I know, there is a shortcut for “Save Draft” in “basic mode” (Accesskey D) – but my preferred mode is “dynamic mode” – and Accesskey D does something else in Chrome on the Mac – it deletes a character on the right side of the text cursor.
In file editors I save the current state using a keyboard shortcut, in horde I can not do that, that’s a pity – it’s quite important for me – every now and then horde logs me out and I loose the e-mail I have been writing.
At least there is an advanced feature to get drafts auto-saved every minute.
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exporting Outlook e-mail message rules
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_filtering
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail
- http://superuser.com/questions/92197/export-outlook-2003-rules-to-text
- http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/rules/create-list-rules/
- http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/power-rules-manager.asp !!! – for Windows only
- http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Email-Tools/product/power-rules-manager/
- https://www.msoutlook.info/question/managing-a-large-amount-of-message-rules (has a discount code for “Power Rules Manager” by Sperry Software)
When I dived into the world of e-mail filtering many years ago, I thought it should be done using sieve, but sieve wasn’t available, where I needed it.
I started using procmail, because it was available, where I most needed e-mail filtering.
I also started a project writing rules in Python accessing IMAP servers. That approach works, but the software runs on the client side — whereas you rather want e-mail filtering to run on the server side, triggered by incoming messages.
In the Windows world and rather in the Microsoft Outlook/Exchange universe none of them is suitable. To be honest with you: my Python software also copes with Exchange servers offering IMAP access, but you usually want to avoid persuading your Exchange admin into activating Exchange’s IMAP interface — you look suspicious or even criminal, if you ask for that.
Now how to properly organise your Outlook rules?
Once in a while I search the web for “outlook rules export dump” …
Today I came across some thread on Superuser.com, and it led me to Sperry Software’s “Power Rules Manager“. I rather seems to be a nice tool. It is not free software, but it is not expensive, and it seems worth the USD 40 they want.
- You are able to export the rules to some XML format — the XML looks a little fat, but that’s not too bad. I am going to indent and tidy my current export file, then I will add some comments shedding some light on my rules organisation.
- You can also pretty-print the rules into various document formats. For the time being I don’t really want to do that.
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e-mail addresses and “sub-addressing” and “plus addressing” resp. “plussing”
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing
- https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addresses.html
- https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/65244/what-are-the-security-reasons-for-disallowing-the-plus-sign-in-email-addresses
- http://www.catb.org/jargon – plussing does not get mentioned in the Jargon File
- https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?ctx=gsidentifer#zippy=%2Cfilter-using-your-gmail-alias
e-mail messages addressing John.Doe+MailingListName@gmail.com are meant to actually go to johndoe@gmail.com, in other words:
- “.” characters actually get removed for computing the real mail box
- everything starting the “+” character and going to the “@” character (not including the latter) gets removed entirely
On the recipient side, software can check on plussing and may come to decisions based on the string between the “+” and the “@”.
Yes, gmail and hotmail and posteo do support plussing. GMX does not support plussing.
On my domains I have a catch-all rule for e-mail forwarding aliases, and procmail rules help me with the checks.
When I will get around to it, I will write here under “e-mail”, how I make use of IMAP, procmail, and fetchmail.
Update 2023-04-04: There is another variant of sub-addressing: if you own the full right side of the “@”, you can also use the full left side of the “@” as a “catch all”, i.e. mail_jh@John.Doe.name and mail_aw@John.Doe.name can be John Doe’s dedicated mail address for me (Jochen Hayek) resp. “aw” (like Alex Winner).