BBEdit request

[Marek Stepanek]

Hello all from BBEdit User Group!


Happy New year 2014 first!

This is a little bit off-topic:

Every new year I am cleaning up my Thunderbird email accounts and every
year I have the same problem cleaning up the BBEdit User Group. I would
kindly ask the group administrator, to put in front of each Thread
something like

[BBEdit Group]

as it is the use in other mailing lists too. So that a click on the
subject would make it easier to have all postings of the BBEdit Group
all together.

<offtopci>
Perhaps somebody could send me offline (mstep at podiuminternational dot
org) a tip, how to trash a mailing list like the BBEdit Group in
Thunderbird. I only found the following method: click on each thread,
and remove it. Or: how to archive mails in Thunderbird? I find it
cumbersome ... I am cleaning up everything and than copying the contents
from ~/Library/Thunderbird to a backup-folder in my ~/Documents
... Only problem with it: I cannot open it with Thunderbird any more. I
would like to have the possibility to start it with ALT and choose the
root-folder to open as in iPhoto or iTunes.
</offtopic>


Best wishes to everybody - happiness curiosity inspiration



marek

[Bill Rowe]

On 1/2/14 at 5:30 PM, ms...@podiuminternational.org (Marek Stepanek)
wrote:

>This is a little bit off-topic:

>Every new year I am cleaning up my Thunderbird email accounts and
>every year I have the same problem cleaning up the BBEdit User
>Group. I would kindly ask the group administrator, to put in front
>of each Thread something like

>[BBEdit Group]

The header for emails to this group contain:

List-ID: <bbedit.googlegroups.com>

So, I have a filter set up in Mailsmith that triggers on that
string and automatically groups all emails to this list in one
mailbox. Perhaps you can do something similar in Thunderbird

[Fritz Anderson]

On 2 Jan 2014, at 10:30 AM, Marek Stepanek <ms...@podiuminternational.org> wrote:

> Every new year I am cleaning up my Thunderbird email accounts and every
> year I have the same problem cleaning up the BBEdit User Group. I would
> kindly ask the group administrator, to put in front of each Thread
> something like
>
> [BBEdit Group]

I'm glad that none of the dozen mailing lists I subscribe to do this, because message lists with subject lines that are identical at first glance are hard to use. People seem to manage without them.

Every mail client I've seen this century can sort mail with a To: header of bbe...@googlegroups.com into its own mailbox. Many mail servers will do it for you on the server end. Clients can do cross-mailbox searches and hand you a consolidated list. If the messages are all in one mailbox with others, you can sort the header list on the To: field. Worse comes to worst, you can write a script that edits the mailbox files for you.

I'd be stunned to learn that none of these options are available to you. It's been minimal functionality for years (I could do something at least rudimentary in Eudora around 1992), and doing it on your end permits a better experience for everyone else.

I'd like to be constructive, but it's hard without understanding the constraints you are laboring under.

— F

[Marek Stepanek]

Thanks for the replies!


Of course, I can filter in Thunderbird for bbe...@googlegroups.com
triggering 2729 messages, with 10 messages per page. But I don't find
any means to delete them all together ... Sorry this is really off-topic
now.

All other mailing-lists I am subscribed too have something like:

[XeTeX]

in every subject line, which is a big help ...



marek

> � F
>

[Bucky Junior]

I use Thunderbird for one of the organizations I am in and find that it is quite easy to filter incoming messages to folders for further reading/action. See Tools->Message Filters.

For deleting, I just go to that folder, Select All, and Delete. Unless I'm missing something that should do it.

I get my gmail group messages on Apple's Mail as IMAP rather than POP so if I deleted my valuable local copy of BBEdit messages, some or all of them might download again. Ha! I would be disappointed if someone changed all the subject lines to include the [BBEdit Group].

Bucky

>> — F
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[Christopher Stone]

On Jan 02, 2014, at 13:35, Marek Stepanek <ms...@podiuminternational.org> wrote:

Of course, I can filter in Thunderbird for bbe...@googlegroups.com triggering 2729 messages, with 10 messages per page. But I don't find any means to delete them all together ... Sorry this is really off-topic now.

______________________________________________________________________

Hey Marek,

In Thunderbird: Edit-->Find-->Search_Messages

Or

Cmd-Shift-F

Choose 'Customize' in the search-criteria-list and add 'List-ID'.

You can then search for messages where the List-ID contains bbedit.googlegroups.com, and delete (or otherwise process) them en masse.

--

Best Regards,

Chris

[Marek Stepanek]

Thank you Chris!


This was really very helpful. Sorry for this noise to the group.



marek

On 03/01/14 02:17, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Jan 02, 2014, at 13:35, Marek Stepanek <ms...@podiuminternational.org

> <mailto:ms...@podiuminternational.org>> wrote:
>> Of course, I can filter in Thunderbird for bbe...@googlegroups.com

>> <mailto:bbe...@googlegroups.com> triggering 2729 messages, with

>> 10 messages per page. But I don't find any means to delete them all
>> together ... Sorry this is really off-topic now.
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Hey Marek,
>
> In Thunderbird: Edit-->Find-->Search_Messages
>
> Or
>
> Cmd-Shift-F
>
> Choose 'Customize' in the search-criteria-list and add 'List-ID'.
>
> You can then search for messages where the List-ID contains

> /bbedit.googlegroups.com <http://bbedit.googlegroups.com>/, and delete

> (or otherwise process) them en masse.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>