[R] [OT] gmail filter for R-help and R-devel lists

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 6/30/05, Douglas Bates <dmbates at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is slightly off-topic but I would be interested in whether anyone
> has succeeded in creating a filter expression for Google's gmail
> system that will select messages sent through the R-help and R-devel
> lists.  It seems as if it should be easy to select on '[R]' or '[Rd]'
> in the subject line but I haven't been able to work out the exact
> syntax that would do this and not select messages that have an 'R'
> anywhere in the subject.

I filter on the To field, which mostly works:

Matches: to:(r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "r-help"

Matches: to:(r-help at r-project.org)
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "r-help"

Deepayan