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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Why, oh why? -or- scoring
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-06-01 20:23:32
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On Friday, 1. June 2001 20:56, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> No, you're still missing what scoring is for. Scoring typically
> applies on "subject" and "from" headers. It's mostly used to
> highlight threads you're interested in, or messages from "important"
> people.

If scoring typically applies on "subject" and "from" headers as you 
write then why can't the score be already calculated when the message 
is received? And as filtering is normally done when a message is 
received it seems to be natural to perform the calculation of the 
message score directly before/during/directly after filtering.
Why has the score to be recalculated everytime you select the folder? 
The "subject" and "from" headers won't change. The only thing that 
actually changes is the age of the messages.

> Suppose you're subscribed to several kde mailing-lists, with a folder
> for each, and you want to score up messages from foo@kde.org in all
> of these folders, but nowhere else. How are you going to express this
> as filter rules?

If a message comes from a kde mailing-list (i.e. "X-Mailing-List" 
contains "@master.kde.org"), calculate the score by looking if the 
message was sent by foo@kde.org.
Where's the problem?

> > Now you will say: "But that's duplicated efford. Why should I add
> > the same rules for scoring _and_ filtering?" And you are _right_.
> > That's the precise reason why I want scoring to be done by filters.
>
> No. As you said, filters are for putting messages into folders.
> Scoring is for sorting messages within their folders. Scoring is not
> meant to decide where to put a message.

Sure. But why can't the calculation of the score be already done 
directly after the reception of the message?

Regards,
Ingo
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