Strange mailing list email.

[Richmond]

On 29.08.2014 15:54, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:34 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I should rephrase that. Gmail puts them in my Spam, as I'm keen
>> to read all of Craig's, Alain's and Peter's contributions I take them
>> out of Spam, read them, label them appropriately and save for future
>> reference. Don't wont you to get the wrong impression ;-)
> I just discovered that I was missing messages for the same reason -- gmail was putting some of them in the spam folder. Here's what I did:
> 1. click the down arrow at the right end of the search field at the top of the gmail window
> 2. enter search criteria that identify all the use-livecode messages. I ended up entering "use-livecode at lists.runrev.com" in the "has the words" field -- and nothing in any of the other fields
> 3. click the search button, and check that you are seeing all the list messages
> 4. click the "create filter with this search" link
> 5. check the "never send to spam" checkbox
> 6. (optionally, choose a label or a category to apply to the messages)
> 7. I also checked the "apply filter to matching messages" checkbox, which I *think* applies this rule to all existing received messages (the wording could be better)
> 8. click the "create filter" button
>
> I believe this will take care of the problem once and for all.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
>
If one is using a dedicated e-mail client such as Thunderbird that 
doesn't seem quite so easy.

One has to make sure one's custom filter runs BEFORE the client's 
inbuilt junk filters.

Richmond.