[119429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Meidinger)
Wed Nov 18 16:24:10 2009
From: Chris Meidinger <cmeidinger@sendmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <025FCD02-AE17-4FB5-8049-8DF7E19EA736@briworks.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:21:46 +0100
To: Jeff Saxe <JSaxe@briworks.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 18.11.2009, at 20:08, Jeff Saxe wrote:
> I don't think Steve meant a way to stop the CPU / process thread of =
retrieving email if it is hung talking to an email server, although =
thank you for that. I believe Steve meant "I want to keep reading the =
NANOG mailing list in general, but this particular message thread has =
zero interest to me, so as any new emails come in that are replies to =
replies to replies to this thread, just suppress them so I don't have to =
even hit Delete.". Something like that.
Ah, I thought you meant threads were blocking Mail.app from processing =
messages in other mailboxes. I subscribe to several imap boxes with over =
half a million messages in them, so I use activity monitor to kill sync =
all the time. Mail.app seems to not process anything else on the same =
account as long as it's busy processing a subscription for a particular =
mailbox, which can take forever in some cases.
As to the actual question, I use Mail.app in threaded mode anyway. When =
I'm not interested in a thread, I just let it collect messages and mark =
it as read every couple of days. I'm not aware of any way to tell =
Mail.app to quit showing messages from a particular thread.
Chris=
