Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:03:46 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.f2s.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions] Message-ID: <20070426210346.GC20176@oberon.njm.f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <20070426204335.GG87931@demeter.hydra> References: <294439d20704250627h60a5b5dcx49f4dd6b34c2caa1@mail.gmail.com> <462F5D64.4020105@dial.pipex.com> <20070425200521.GD81828@demeter.hydra> <20070425152547.S12335@wonkity.com> <20070425214420.GA82659@demeter.hydra> <20070426190319.GA20176@oberon.njm.f2s.com> <20070426204335.GG87931@demeter.hydra>
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On Thursday, 26 April, 2007 at 14:43:35 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:03:19PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 15:44:20 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > [...]
> > > I fully expect that there isn't really an answer aside from using mutt's
> > > list subscription functionality, which unfortunately overwrites the name
> > > or email of the original sender in the diplay.
> >
> > It doesn't for me. The only time I see the list name in place of the
> > message sender's email address is for my own posts, where it displays
> > the To: address instead of the From: address, which is what I prefer.
> >
> > Perhaps you have something wrong with your setting of index_format?
>
> I think you must misunderstand something in what I said. I'm talking
> about ways to get visual cues for the list origins of emails. The fact
> that the "subscribe" setting in .muttrc allows the display to show the
> list's address (the "To:" address) instead of the sender's address (the
> "From:" address) is a means of achieving that. That's not the best way,
> in my opinion, to make the list association of an email clear, but it's
> the way the "subscribe" setting does it.
Okay, I think I understand. :-)
I think the misunderstanding was because I am using mutt very
differently from you. I have each list I am subscribed to filtered into
its own mail box by procmail. I have listed all of these mailing lists
in mutt's subscribed setting. I also have status_on_top set and
pager_index_lines set to 10. The up shot of all this is that I know
which mailing list I am reading because it is listed in the status line.
Separate mail boxes for each mailing list just makes more sense to me.
:-)
Cheers,
Nick.
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