7.1 Guess by mailing-list folders

Many users tend to refile messages destined to a mailing-list to a folder whose name is the same as the mailing-list. Mew provides a mechanism to guess a mailing-list folder for messages destined to mailing-lists.

Suppose that you have a folder named +misc/pooh-lovers. The following message is probably to be refiled to this folder.

To: pooh-lovers@example.org 

Likewise, Mew searches a matching folder forward with addresses on To: and Cc:. There are many people who do not use recursive folders. With Mew, however, you would not be smart if you do not use it.

Smart users may wonder that they get a trouble in the following situation where private addresses are on To: or Cc:.

To: piglet@example.org
Cc: pooh-lovers@example.org

Since Pooh is a member of pooh-lovers, he receives this message. But he has a folder for his friend, Piglet. So, +from/piglet may be chosen.

To avoid this, Mew allows you to specify which folders are to be ignored. The default is +from. So, please take a convention to refile personal messages under +from.

When Mew guesses a candidate by the folders, it asks you:

Folder name (+misc/pooh-lovers): +

Just type ‘RET’ if the default is exactly what you want.

If you specify a new folder with ‘o’, the folder is created and added to the folder list to be used for guess. Convenient, isn't it?

The function name to provide this feature is ‘mew-refile-guess-by-folder’.

If you don't use capital letters for folder names, configure as follows to make this function faster:

(setq mew-use-fast-refile t)

By default, candidate includes node folders as well as leaf folders. If you want to not select node folders but leave folders only, configure as follows:

(setq mew-use-node-folder nil)

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