What is this Junk in Mailing Lists?
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I have a number of mailing lists. They don't seem to serve any useful purpose, and have meaningless names. What are they?
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I was able to delete all but the first two mailing lists, but they serve no useful purpose.
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I had the same thing with M2, I guess this is sorted automatically when the message comes from bulk sending. Unfortunately this sorting doesn't care if it is spam or not. See the names of my list ... Destroying one by one is the only solution I found as well.
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@tcltk There is a line in the email headers which identifies a message as coming from a mailing list and should include the list name. Of course many mailing lists are spam (ads), unfortunately neither M2 nor M3 delete the list just because all the messages were deleted.
If you look, you can rename those list views (for those that actually contain something useful) to something more helpful. It amazes me how many lists I see involving "xt.local"
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Bug report replies are included in list-id-mcsv.net and xt.local.
Surely Vivaldi can clean up its own mail lists?
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The solution cannot involve
a) making everyone sending mailing lists use the standards correctly, because there are too many and Vivaldi doesn't have the lever required to change things (see Open the web activities in Presto Opera times).
b) Vivaldi users making manual adjustments to clean up the mailing list filter. Too advanced for most users that just want a working mail client.
I think the mailing list functionality is great but it should start with the assumption that folks use them incorrectly, so start with the base assumption that all things are junk. Then make it easy to group things, ideally by making suggestions right in the email I am looking at ("this seems to be related to that..."). I guess Vivaldi should get learning filters anyway sooner or later, and mailing lists might be a playground for getting it to work.
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Yeah, I've disabled the mailing list feature altogether - and I'm glad it's possible in Vivaldi now (forgot to close my old feature request - thanks for the link @derDay).
In M2, I have currently 159 mailing lists - 99% of which is basically garbage. And that is after deleting hundreds of them (I used to delete them manually whenever new ones popped up until I gave up, and switched to hiding the mailing list view altogether - which kept popping up each time a new list appeared).
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@pafflick said in What is this Junk in Mailing Lists?:
I've disabled the mailing list feature altogethe
How? Where?
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@ayespy Settings/Mail - Mailing Lists
Delete every list entry. Then the options change to allow "Ignore All" for uncategorized lists!!
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@tbgbe said in What is this Junk in Mailing Lists?:
Delete every list entry
Ah. Well, then, I would only have several tens of thousands to delete. One at a time. Piece of cake. Uhmmmm, sure.
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This no longer works as before.
The list entries in mailing lists are actually mailing list groups. There's only a hand full of them by default.
By simply choosing the "Ignore All" for uncategorized lists will turn all of the other ones off.
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@gmg But once they are turned off, how to get rid of them? There is no way to multi-select/delete mailing lists. Every single one has to be deleted one at a time by hand.
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@Ayespy
They should then disappear from the panel (don't delete them from the ignore all list otherwise they won't be ignored when new mails come in). Only ones left should be mailing list group -
@gmg Well, I set them to ignore several days ago, and none have disappeared. There are about twenty thousand of them.
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@gmg Well, That setting seems to have been changed somehow to an ignore list rather than "all" Let me try that again.
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@gmg Appears to be only forward-looking. No older lists are deleted.
And I set it to "all," close Mail settings, reopen them and it is set to ignore list. The "all" setting does not stick.