Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:06:20 -0800 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: Robert Hough <rch@acidpit.org>, Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <20011211140620.B67653@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011211214943.A4489@tisys.org>; from nils@tisys.org on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:49:43PM %2B0100 References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <01121010202100.00345@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <20011211144049.A14693@acidpit.org> <20011211214943.A4489@tisys.org>
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> Another real world example: The pine email software is supposed to be easy > to use (that is the goal of the pine project). So, until recently I used > pine, for historical reaons (it was the first ever UNIX MUA I used and I > didn't bother to switch). However, telling pine to correctly filter my mail > was a kind of hard. For this mailing list, for example, messages can be > sent to freebsd-chat@freebsd.org or chat@freebsd.org. Furthermore, that > address may appear either in the To: or CC: header field. In order not to > any messages, I would probably have needed for separate filters. Now, with > mutt and procmail (undoubtedly these are supposed to be harder to use), I > simply put this short thing in my .procmailrc: > > :0: > * ^TO*chat@freebsd.org > freebsd-chat You may also want to take a look at the List-ID line in the headers. This allows you to easily determine where the message came from, if you would like to sort personal reply copies differently. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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