2013
September
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Filtering Mail using JavaMail
At the Lee House, we have an email problem: there’s just too much of it. Over the years of signing up for contests, coupons, and other things, we seem to have amassed a giant number of subscriptions to various lists, which gives us a lot of (usually) junk email. The simple solution, of course, is just to unsubscribe, but some of those are actually occasionally useful. Throw in a pinch of proscratination and laziness, and, well… it all just keeps coming. Email clients can help manage this by providing email filters to move these emails out of the inbox, but, in the case of Thunderbird, there are only so many rules you can add to one filter, so you either create multiple rules, or give up trying. Several months back, I moved these rules to a perl-based system, but, thanks to a hard drive crash, I lost all of those. Rather than rebuild that setup, which had its own limitations, I did what every good geek would do: I wrote my own, and here it is. :)
My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997,
using a variety of languages, including Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Delphi, and even a bit of C#. I currently work for Red Hat
on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer,
Jakarta Faces, and Bean Validation. (Full resume 