Re: Only receive the topics I participated in or initiated on this mailing list.

From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2021, 00:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGP6POJ4GPDL3uTzzBDSZ1ykypA4SyVEC5sc0W=FCLOsHmOntA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv9bagzwb.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:09 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:41 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You can,  on _your_ end, filter incoming messages that are sent via
> >> vger.kernel.org and do not have your address on To or Cc.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your comment. It seems that the following
> > Gmail filter will do the trick:
> >
> > From: *@vger.kernel.org
> > To or Cc: -hongyi.zhao@gmail.com
> >
> > But I can't find the Cc field on the filter panel.
>
> Here is what I use to process messages that are sent to me without
> being sent to the mailing list:
>
>     (to:gitster@pobox.com -(to:git@vger.kernel.org))
>
> The rule is set to skip the inbox and throw it in dustbin ;-).
>
> I'd imagine something like
>
>     (-(to:hongyi.zhao@gmail.com) (to:git@vger.kernel.org))
>
> would hit what you want to filter out.  Let me swap To/Cc of this
> message so that you would appear on Cc so that you can experiment; I
> think to: would work for such a message just fine as well.

Thanks a lot for your wonderful notes. Based on my trial and error with Gmail's filter/search toolbar, It seems that the correct filter should be written as follows to meet my requirements:

to:(git@vger.kernel.org) -{hongyi.zhao@gmail.com} to:(git@vger.kernel.org) -hongyi.zhao@gmail.com

Regards

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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
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