Comments on: Color code email messages

by: Serge R.M.

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:10:35 +0000

On Thunderbird Message Filters vs. regexp (cf. Matt Doar), I have actually been looking for a way to use regexps in filters.
I need to do a filter on mail where the TO field “contains”
“user1@host.tld” or “user2@host.tld” or… general case “usernn@host.ltd”
or possibly user@host1.tld or user@host2.tld

The regexp would be something like “user[0-9]@host[0-9].tld”.

Now I haven’t been able to use this in a filter. Does anyone have a hint somewhere ?

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by: seramik cimento demir

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:11:47 +0000

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by: LH van Boeijen

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:40:35 +0000

Matt Doar: Try putting your email address in the filter that says “is” instead of “contains” - should do the trick.

cheers

by: dosibule

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:30:52 +0000

nice color tips thanks !

by: Matt Doar

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:13:32 +0000

I tried the positive approach to this - I want to color mail that has only me as the recipient in Thunderbird 1.5.0.8. I created a filter that checked for mail that matches both of two patterns., one where the To field starts with userid@example.com, and one where the To field ends with userid@example.com, and then labels the mail so it can be colored.

Unfortunately, this still selects mail with multiple To addresses. This makes me think suspicious thoughts about the regex behind the filters in Thunderbird.
Anyone ever seen this work?

~Matt

by: EW

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:43:44 +0000

Thanks for the instructions on color-coding–I’ve just switched jobs and my new organization uses Thunderbird. Being wedded to the color-coding feature in Groupwise, I was hoping something similar existed for Thunderbird. Your explanation was great!

by: genericface

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:48:22 +0000

Organizing email sent directly to you…

Organize email in Outlook by “graying out” items not sent directly to you.

……

by: BEG

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:50:43 +0000

Some additional notes: On Linux Thunderbird, the options are under Edit->Preferences and then choose Display from the left sidebar, the labels will be in the final panel of the resulting dialog.

Tools->Message filter is the same.

It’s possible the linux version I have (1.07) has a bug here, because it’s labelling everything as later, even though I checked the headers and it should not match on directly sent stuff, and I’ve checked for misspellings. I’ll see what 1.5 does, but just a note to other linux users…