It took me a while to figure something out that works, but I’ve figured out a way to organize my filters in Thunderbird. Since I have something like 40 rules, editing and understanding them was started to become difficult.
My solution? I started adding fake filters as separator lines between the groups of filters. They now look like this:
--- People Filters ---
Person A
Person B
--- Mailing Lists ---
List A
List B
--- Miscellaneous ---
Spam
Viruses
I would love to have filter folders or some other form of hierarchical organization, but this will do for now. It’s much easier to understand your filters when you can see them executing as a block of similar filter types. I prefer my people filters to execute first, followed by mailing lists and opt-in notifications (bank, Yahoo, Google, etc.) and, finally, my SpamAssassin-tagged-message rule filters.
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rml posted some use cases for Project Utopia. If they can solve these issues smoothly (which I’m pretty sure they’ll pull off), Linux will take a big jump in terms of general plug’n’play usability.
Unfortunately, the use cases miss out on one of my favorite new features - multi-session X. You can easily start two X servers on two different virtual consoles right now, but the new gdm stuff will support suspending and resuming X sessions, as well as nested X servers. This will help Linux catch up to the cool multi-user login features of Windows XP.
It’s tricky to get this working well in Linux right now - there’s a bunch of magic that goes on behind the scenes to make sure the console user gets the proper permissions. This stuff needs to get upgraded to handle this multi-session magic.
I’ve got a solution where I’ve added all of my potential console users to a “console” group and assigned root.console to each of the devices that console users might need (ie: /dev/nvidiactl, /dev/dsp). This works for now, but I’d like to see this handled via ACLs or some other fancy way.
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Evangelism: First Firefox, Now Thunderbird?
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After installing Mozilla Thunderbird yesterday, all I can say is “wow!” Not only is the look ultra-slick and refreshing, but it’s so fast that it really does deserve to be alongside an amazing browser like Firefox. They’ve done such a great job that people nearby just start using it without even saying anything.
Before Thunderbird I wasn’t willing to push the Mozilla mail client on anyone. I was using it before and, while it was fast, it looked like a relic of the Netscape 4.0 days. As well, you needed to match it with the Mozilla browser. Also fast, but not an end-user polished package.
Thanks to mscott and the rest of the Thunderbird team, however, it has been transformed into a modern, polished mail client. It even fits seamlessly into XP, something I find that Office 2003 doesn’t do well.
The build I’m using at work is their latest “weekly build”. So far it’s been smooth sailing. Alongside Firefox (with its Google bar, ad-blocking and tabbed browsing), I’ve got a couple of amazing productivity tools that Outlook could never beat.
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