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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:59:14 -0700
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
To:        Joe Konecny <jkonecn@green-mfg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A request to the list owner.
Message-ID:  <19990701145914.U67907@001101.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <377BA053.8099D256@green-mfg.com>; from Joe Konecny on Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:07:31PM -0400
References:  <377BA053.8099D256@green-mfg.com>

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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:07:31PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote:
> Would it be possible to concatenate a standard header to the
> subject line of all messages originating from the FreeBSD
> mailing list?  Something like "FreeBSD> Whatever subject"
> 
> This makes managing mail easier for me and I would think
> others would find it useful.

There are many reasons why this is a really bad idea.  I'll let 
others go into them, as they already have. :)  If you're using
procmail, though, you could use this recipe to file your FreeBSD
mail into various folders:

FROM="((X-)?(((Envelope-)?Sender|(Apparently-|Resent-)?From)|Reply-To|Return-Path):(.*\<)?)"

:0 :
* $ (^$FROM|^TO_)freebsd.org
* ^Sender:[     ]*owner-(freebsd-)?\/(advocacy|announce|arch|chat|current|cvs-all|hackers|hardware|ipfw|isp|jobs|mobile|mozilla|net|ports|questions|security|smp|stable)
| formail -i "X-List: freebsd-$MATCH" >> freebsd/$MATCH

You'll have to modify the recipe if you subscribe to more freebsd lists
than that, or if you don't want them all in a folder called "freebsd". 

Greg
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