[TAG] What other existing RMAIL Emacs commands or techniques or mechanisms are useful for sorting out spam messages?... besides Esc C-s Regexp to summarize by: ...

[Rick Moen]

This posting was held by Mailman, and I rejected it with the note "I'm
sorry, Don, but you really cannot dump a 83 kilobyte pile of
documentation onto a discussion mailing list.  Either send only the
relevant (small) extract or put it up somewhere on the Web and provide
the URL instead of the full text.  The mailing list software will always
block posts with large attachments, and you'll end up receiving a
rejection note like this one."  However, here's the message with Don's
huge inclusion severely truncated:

 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:40:55 -0400
 From: don warner saklad <don.saklad at gmail.com>
 Reply-To: don.saklad at gmail.com
 To: TAG at lists.linuxgazette.net
 Subject: What other existing RMAIL Emacs commands or techniques or mechanisms are useful for sorting out spam messages?... besides Esc C-s Regexp to summarize by: ...

For nonprogrammer type users what other existing RMAIL Emacs commands
or techniques or mechanisms are useful for sorting out spam messages
more efficiently and effectively?... for example in RMAIL Emacs
laboriously sorting out spam messages can be tried with
Esc C-s Regexp to summarize by: ...

For nonprogrammer type users it appears that using existing commands
for each session is an alternative to attempts at composing programs
or tweaking others' programs or the difficulties of dotfiles.


C-M-s runs the command rmail-summary-by-regexp
as listed on the chart
C-h b describe-bindings

         Key translations:
         key             binding
         ---             -------

         C-x           Prefix Command

         C-x 8         iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map


         Major Mode Bindings:
         key             binding
         ---             -------

         C-c           Prefix Command
         C-d           rmail-summary-delete-backward
         RET           rmail-summary-goto-msg
         C-o           rmail-summary-output
         ESC           Prefix Command
         SPC           rmail-summary-scroll-msg-up
         -             negative-argument
         .             rmail-summary-beginning-of-message
         /             rmail-summary-end-of-message
         0 .. 9                digit-argument
         <             rmail-summary-first-message
         >             rmail-summary-last-message
         ?             describe-mode
         Q             rmail-summary-wipe
         a             rmail-summary-add-label
         b             rmail-summary-bury
         c             rmail-summary-continue
         d             rmail-summary-delete-forward
         e             rmail-summary-edit-current-message
         f             rmail-summary-forward
         g             rmail-summary-get-new-mail
         h             rmail-summary
         i             rmail-summary-input
         j             rmail-summary-goto-msg
         k             rmail-summary-kill-label
         l             rmail-summary-by-labels
         m             rmail-summary-mail
         n             rmail-summary-next-msg
         o             rmail-summary-output-to-rmail-file
         p             rmail-summary-previous-msg
         q             rmail-summary-quit
         r             rmail-summary-reply
         s             rmail-summary-expunge-and-save
         t             rmail-summary-toggle-header
         u             rmail-summary-undelete
         w             rmail-summary-output-body
         x             rmail-summary-expunge
         DEL           rmail-summary-scroll-msg-down

         <mouse-2>     rmail-summary-mouse-goto-message
         <remap>               Prefix Command

         C-c C-n               rmail-summary-next-same-subject
         C-c C-p               rmail-summary-previous-same-subject
         C-c C-s               Prefix Command

         C-M-h         rmail-summary
         C-M-l         rmail-summary-by-labels
         C-M-n         rmail-summary-next-labeled-message
         C-M-p         rmail-summary-previous-labeled-message
         C-M-r         rmail-summary-by-recipients
         C-M-s         rmail-summary-by-regexp
         C-M-t         rmail-summary-by-topic
         M-m           rmail-summary-retry-failure
         M-n           rmail-summary-next-all
         M-p           rmail-summary-previous-all
         M-s           rmail-summary-search
         M-u           rmail-summary-undelete-many

         C-c C-s C-a   rmail-summary-sort-by-author
         C-c C-s C-c   rmail-summary-sort-by-correspondent
         C-c C-s C-d   rmail-summary-sort-by-date
         C-c C-s C-k   rmail-summary-sort-by-labels
         C-c C-s C-l   rmail-summary-sort-by-lines
         C-c C-s C-r   rmail-summary-sort-by-recipient
         C-c C-s C-s   rmail-summary-sort-by-subject


         Global Bindings:
         key             binding
         ---             -------

         C-@           set-mark-command
         C-a           move-beginning-of-line

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