Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:50:02 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: subject prepending Message-ID: <20020907195002.GA1680@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3D7A5359.4641B60B@netzero.net> References: <3D7A5359.4641B60B@netzero.net>
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On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:28:25PM -0400, Kirk Bailey wrote: > most lists prepend the listname in [square brackets]. This is a > material help for filtering messages into the correct folder. Could > the list owner please turn on this feature to facilitate filtering > for us out here is subscriberland? The suggested mechanism for achieving what you want is described in RFC2919 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2919.txt). It's still only "Standards Track", not yet "Best Practice", but none the less most mailing lists have adopted the recommendations --- in my experience rather more lists than modify the subject line as you suggest. In short, the mechanism is to add a new header "List-ID:" to messages delivered to mailing lists. If you examine the headers of any messages posted to this list you will see that it (and indeed all mailing lists @FreeBSD.ORG) already comply: List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> Most MUAs can detect this header and use it to filter messages into Mailboxes. This procmail snippet is what I use for my own account: # FreeBSD Questions :0: * ^List-ID: <freebsd-questions\.FreeBSD\.ORG> | ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Folder: FreeBSD/Questions" >> FreeBSD/Questions Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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