From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 28 02:56:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA21440 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smoke.marlboro.vt.us (smoke.marlboro.vt.us [198.206.215.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA21435 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 02:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cgull@localhost) by smoke.marlboro.vt.us (8.8.5/8.8.5/cgull) id FAA20971; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 05:55:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 05:55:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199707280955.FAA20971@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> From: john hood MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Nugent CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What string to filter FreeBSD lists? In-Reply-To: <199707241049.UAA00697@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> References: <19970723075000.00233@wasted.bandwidth.org> <199707241049.UAA00697@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under Emacs 19.34.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Nugent writes: > Yep, I've found that ^From is the most reliable method of filtering > with procmail, but it assumes that this line is preserved right into > the mailbox (ie. the envelope arrives intact). This works with the > bulk of mailing list software, and even allows cleanly distinguishing > between private replies and replies to the list. there's better. if you control your delivering sendmail, use sendmail's 'user+mailbox@host' mailbox support in conjunction with FEATURE(local_procmail) in your sendmail.mc to enable procmail as your local mailer. procmail is passed the mailbox name after the + sign as an argument. you can use this information in your .procmailrc. then subscribe to your lists with different mailbox names in your email address. it's been absolutely reliable, except for the people who snarf the wrong address off a mailing list to send out personal party invites. :) --jh -- John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard]