Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:29:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to filter the emails from this list Message-ID: <20060215172956.GA23848@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550602150520t6f73d714wb9cbf2de85d56449@mail.gmail.com> References: <5ceb5d550602150520t6f73d714wb9cbf2de85d56449@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2006-02-15 14:20, "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> wrote:
> Every once in a while, some guy sends an email to the
> FreeBSD-questions mailing list using BCC, which makes the email pass
> my filters, and head straight to my inbox.
> I have set up a filter which checks the email address(es) the email was sent to.
> So far, it looks like this:
> ____
> Matches: to:(freebsd-questions@freebsd.org OR questions@freebsd.org OR
> freebsd-questions@www.freebsd.org)
> Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "FreeBSD-Questions"
> ____
> Yes, FYI, some people actually write "freebsd-questions@www.freebsd.org"
>
> But how do I make sure that _every_ email to the gets filtered?
Use a better match rule. You are filtering on the wrong criteria,
namely the "to" headers. Using the standard "Sender:" header that the
mailing list software adds, you can write something similar to the
following procmail filter:
:0 H
* ^Sender: owner[^@]*@freebsd.org
{
:0 H
* ^Sender: owner-doc-committers@freebsd.org
freebsd.cvs.doc/
+ :0 H
+ * ^Sender: owner-cvs-\/[^@]*
+ freebsd.cvs.$MATCH/
:0 H
* ^Sender: owner-freebsd-\/[^@]*
freebsd.$MATCH/
:0 H
freebsd.misc/
}
The most important lines are marked with '+'. These match any message
sent by the mailing list software of FreeBSD.org, regardless of what the
user has put in their recipient list.
> I've noticed that all emails sent to the FreeBSD mailing lists get
> suffixed with some text. Can I trust that this text wont change every
> few weeks or so?
No. But you can trust the "Sender:" header.
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