[gentoo-dev] Re: please remove me off your mailing list

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov posted on Tue, 24 May 2016 14:20:38 +0600 as
excerpted:

>> thanks.  i just don;t want my inbox full of gentoo anymore.  i use
>> gentoo
> 
> Actually, if the case was only to "not had full INBOX of gentoo", it was
> possible to just enable "sorting" and place gentoo-dev in separate
> IMAP-folder (like I did). But I guess, you've already unsubscribed, so
> nevermind ;)

Of course, to place gentoo in a separate IMAP-folder, you must actually 
/have/ an IMAP folder, which implies having an IMAP account, not, say, 
POP3, which seems to be what gets offered 'round here.[1]

Tho of course it's possible to sort local mail, as from POP3, into 
folders/directories too, as I do for various commercial lists and mailed 
notifications from wordpress, etc, tho not for community mailing lists 
like the gentoo lists.

For community lists I normally use gmane's list2news service, getting the 
lists as newsgroups, which I process using my favorite news client (pan, 
FWIW).

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[1] Yes, it is of course possible to run your own mail server locally, 
and serve IMAP, while pulling in mail from various accounts, but then 
that's simply doing the same division into local folders to serve over 
IMAP, that you can do with a mail client pulling in the mail and sorting 
it into similar local folders without the additional IMAP complexity, so 
no need for IMAP in the loop, at least if you have only one primary 
machine, as I do.

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