Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail
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> > instead just send the mail from that list to its own folder like:
> >
> > :0:
> > * ^TOdebian-user
> > $HOME/mail/debian
> >
>
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
> of the list. A subject line like
>
> Subject: I need HELP
>
> would become
>
> Subject: DEBIAN-USER I need HELP
>
> I found out that the above formula for filtering does NOT catch all of
> debian-user messages. I have several non-related mail lists coming into my
I'm using the above style filter, maybe not as pretty, but I havn't had a list e-mail slip through. If
the message was addressed to me and the list, it goes into my normal mail box just as it should. I'm
using the following:
:0:
*^TOdebian
/home/rob/Mail/debianfile
Maybe it's working because the only debian list i'm currently subscribed to is debian-user
> system, and some of them use that option. This list, unfortunately, does not
> thus making it hard to correctly separate debian messages from the rest of the
> pack (who use "listserv").
>
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> Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL
> tomk@westgac3.dragon.com
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