Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:06:16 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing subject of this list? Message-ID: <cb5206420612310706w17788756w5df2fa523e59cf3f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4597C9EC.4000008@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <60405.192.168.11.7.1167571842.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <4597C9EC.4000008@infracaninophile.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 12/31/06, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > All the best for the New Year to everyone. By the way, would it be > > possible for this list to introduce a subject prefix like [FBSDQ] or > > something along this line? It would make sorting much easier. Some people > > put the list address in CC so with MUAs like SquirrelMail it is a bit > > difficult to filter the messages. > > A very effective method of filtering is to look for the List-ID: header. > Most mail software won't display it to you without persuasion, but > for freebsd-questions@... it looks like this: > > [...] > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 > Precedence: list > List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, > <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> > [...] > > Mailing lists should nowadays include a List-ID: header in the mails they > send out. [RFC 2919 if you're that interested] Sorting messages based on > it is, I find, generally the most accurate way to classify them correctly. > > It's very easy to do in procmail -- too obvious to bother giving an > example. In thunderbird, you have go into Tools:Message Filters, then > hit New to create a new rule, then choose 'Customize' from the 'Subject' > pull-down. Unfortunately squirrelmail is not a software package I know > much about, but I'd expect any reasonably competent e-mail client to > be able to filter on arbitrary mail headers without too much trouble. In gmail it's undocumented, but you can use listid search operator to search and filter by List-ID.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?cb5206420612310706w17788756w5df2fa523e59cf3f>