Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

> I am subscribed to a few hundred mailing lists

Eep!

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David
Stardate 8325.2

On 4/27/2008 3:47 PM India Time, _Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)_ wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using version 1.5.0.14 (20060911) of Thunderbird running on opwnSuSE
> 10.2.
>
> I am subscribed to a few hundred mailing lists

:-) yeah, that Guinness book guy was talking to me the other day about
you. :-) he he he

> and have each mailing
> lists' mail filtered into its own folder.

I am sure you must be keeping a full time assistant to create all those
filters for you.

> Due to the number and that
> they all have been subscribed to over the last 10 years, I have
> forgotten some of the login details and or would either like to renew or
> unsubscribe from some of the lists.

that is not a TB issue, but yeah, a small discussion might help as
several users might have such issues.

1. Use the same email id and password for all the routine subscription.
or may be, just 2-3, may one set for mailing lists, one set for online
forums, etc. For newsgroup, take a server that doesn't bother with login
id passwords, like aioe.

2. or, if you have different interests, put an id/ password set for your
dating life, one set for your professional communications etc.

3. Make a folder in TB (I am calling it reg -- registration) in which I
move all the mails I receive for account confirmation, or password
reminders or whatever communication takes place when an account/
subscription is created.

>
> Is there a file I can copy from that contains all the folder names that
> I have? I have googled myself silly without success.

Hmm. That is where I miss good old ms dos where you could just give
"dir/s > tmp.txt" and all the folders/ files recursively would get
listed to a file on the disk that you can even move to excel to sort. Go
to command prompt

u r on suse, so I think you think think out of TB and try the "ls -l >
tmp.txt" type of thing in the directory to get a list to a text file and
then rearrange.

>
> TIA
> Hylton

btw, I wonder if you could find Opera mail/ ng reader more useful
because it automatically creates a folder and moves all the mails there
that are coming from an email id that would be each subscription.

Hope you didn't mind some of my light hearted comments.
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Rawat