On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 at 11:47, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 07:22 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this
> maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a
> folder.  In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call
> categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates,
> formus, promotions.  This is not reflected into IMAP, all these
> categories are just INBOX.  This is my problem, gmail auto-
> categorizing magic is just too useful but only available through web
> I/F.  I _could_ write filters in theory, but gmail magic is just so
> much better at it.

How much trust do you put in gmail in getting this automatic
categorising correct?

With gmail I filter lists using the subject line when the list puts
something like "[list-name]" in the subject, or other header 
data, but some list messages still show up in unexpected places.
 

I make filters for standard things (mailing lists, my service
providers, etc), but I hand sort everything else because I wouldn't
want important things misfiled.  I don't even use spam filtering
because I know that makes mistakes (in both direction), and it always
will.

For my gmail (used mainly for list mails), the volume of spam is quite low.
I have an address on a "community network" that gets much more spam. 
Firefox's trainable filter combined with the community network's filtering 
works reasonably well for me.
 
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George N. White III