drop ~/.fmail/lists, add new saved queries query:bulk & query:inbox

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/.mbsyncrc b/.mbsyncrc
index 2253c064..6c255c15 100644
--- a/.mbsyncrc
+++ b/.mbsyncrc
@@ -58,9 +58,36 @@ Slave            :fmmaildir:sent
 #   Slave :fmmaildir:
 #   Patterns * !INBOX
 
-Channel          lists
-Master           :fmimap:Lists
-Slave            :fmmaildir:lists
+# So long as I'm using a mail provider that supports Sieve, can install this
+# to deliver all mail which has a List-Id into a separate Lists folder.  The
+# sole purpose of this is to make INBOX more useful when accessing it from
+# webmail or other non-notmuch clients, by filtering out the discussion lists
+# firehose.  Some mail addressed directly to me has a bogus List-Id header so
+# this will misfilter it, so sometimes I will have to look in both folders in
+# a non-notmuch client anyway.
+#
+# My notmuch saved queries know how to handle mailing list and non-mailing
+# list List-IDs without relying on the folder:inbox / folder:lists distinction
+# at all.  So if a mail provider has no way to install custom sieve scripts,
+# it doesn't matter much.  At the present time the script is *not* installed.
+# If I find myself having to use webmail a lot more, could create the
+# INBOX.Lists folder and install it again.  Cf. ~/doc/archive/fastmail.sieve
+# for the most recent more involved script I had installed, now replaced by
+# query:inbox and query:bulk.
+
+#    if header :regex ["List-Id","List-Post"] ".+"
+#    {
+#    	fileinto "INBOX.Lists";
+#    	stop;
+#    }
+#    else
+#    {
+#    	keep;
+#    }
+
+# Channel          lists
+# Master           :fmimap:Lists
+# Slave            :fmmaildir:lists
 
 Channel          fmaild
 Master           :fmimap:Drafts
@@ -88,7 +115,7 @@ Channel          fmaili
 Channel          fmails
 Channel          fmaild
 Channel          fmailt
-Channel          lists
+# Channel          lists
 Channel          notes
 Channel          spamtraining
 Channel          hamtraining