Flag mail with sieve to make them appear colored in MUA

Question

I want to flag mails with sieve to make them appear colored in MUA.

Use case: On a very high traffic technical mailing list, there is a community member with a brilliant mind. I want to highlight his posts to make them more visible.

I want to do this with sieve (and not in the MUA) since I use different MUAs.

The result should look like this screen shot of thunderbird:

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 10:43

You can use sieve like this:

require "imap4flags";

if header :contains "from" ["malcolmt"] {
   addflag "$label5";
}

Here is the list of available hard-coded tags:

0 – Remove all tags,
1 – Important,
2 – Work,
3 – Personal,
4 – To Do,
5 – Later

List of flags is from http://www.grimeton.com

BTW, I choose 5 because I like the color. I don't care for the meaning in this context.

Flag mail with sieve to make them appear colored in MUA

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