Thunderbird

[llawwehttam]

Not too sure where to post this so im just dumping it here.
I kinda want to subscribe to the Debian mailing lists but I am a bit of a control freak and like to be well organised. I was subscribed for a while but the ammount of mail was killing me.

What I'd like to do is set up Thunderbird (using IMAP) to automatically put all mails from Debian into a specific folder instead of my inbox. Its not exactly urgent but its just one of those nice things. I only read my mail on this machine so I only need this done once and as I am using AOL (where's my silver stake and holy water) I can't do it inside my aol mailbox.

If there's no way to do this I don't mind too much and ill just set up a 12th email address for debian. lol

[llawwehttam]

Ok guys its all good. I found out of you go to message filters you can set emails from a specific address or that contain specific words to a separate folder.

Now why couldn't I find that earlier???

[powdarrmonkey]

Out of curiosity, which list did you get snowed under? debian-devel can be pretty heavy at times, for sure.

[llawwehttam]

I was subscribed to Debian-devel, debian-announce, and a couple of others so yeah it got pretty heavy.

At the moment im a beginner in development, Sure ive made themes, skins, splash screens, login themes and I can use vim to make short shell script programs using zenity and Kdialogue but ive never really got further than that so thats why im subscribing to the lists so I can kinda work out how its all done and hopefully do a bit myself.

[powdarrmonkey]

debian-devel can be high traffic (~100 mails a day, sometimes a few hundred). Try debian-devel-announce instead, or subscribe in digest mode.

Other handy lists: debian-mentors (packaging questions and sponsorship), debian-release (making the wheels go round in sid and squeeze), debian-users (non-development queries).

If you're interested in packaging (where most activity is) choose something interesting and useful from Freshmeat, see if you'd use it on a regular basis, and package it.

[llawwehttam]

Ok thanks for the tips.

By the way just a general question. My Rep suddenly went down to -38 overnight but my recent rep is blank except for a couple of thankyou's but my rep by the side of my posts appears at 0 and my thankyou's appear at 1. Is that normal or have i messed something up in my account.

[powdarrmonkey]

No idea, probably Dos_Box's patch overnight.

[llawwehttam]

Oh well It's all working again now so its all good. All my old rep changes have come back so not sure what caused the disappearences.