filtering
First I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my comment. I apologize about
the length of this message. It combines the current comments and I'm
attempting to show that not every message has a uniform header. So please bear
with it and read on.
>From dragon!cogs.susx.ac.uk!luisgh Wed Apr 9 01:08:58 1997
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>From: luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Luis Francisco Gonzalez)
>Subject: Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail
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>> 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
>
[snip]
>You can use the special headers X-Mailing-List to do the filtering.
>
>Hope this helps!
>Luis.
Ok Luis, please take a look the snapshot of the header from your own message.
Where is the "X-Mailing-List" line? I must be blind 8-) I can't seem to find
it. 8-)
To Johannes Martinez,
Thanks for the comment. I can't say for certain whether or not the threads
would be affected. If the threading reader inspects the whole line rather than
just the first one or two words, I would guess that additional information
should not "munge" the threads.
>From dragon!unex.es!sanvila Wed Apr 9 01:09:32 1997
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>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:22:04 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
>To: tomk@westgac3.dragon.com
>CC: jcostom@sjis.com, debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail
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>On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 tomk@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
[snip]
There is absolutely no need to munge the Subject line, since you have
already the Resent-Sender field.
[snip]
Hola Santiago Vila,
I'm curious, but where is the "Resent-Sender" field in the header of your
message? What do you make of the header of the message from Luis? 8-)
>From dragon!tapiola.infodrom.north.de!joey Wed Apr 9 01:23:01 1997
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>From: joey@tapiola.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)
>To: tomk@westgac3.dragon.com
>CC: jcostom@sjis.com, debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail
>In-Reply-To: <[🔎] m0wEaTD-000FxcC@westgac3.dragon.com>; from
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>
[snip]
>All Debian lists contain a line like the following:
>
>X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Thanks for the comment, Joey. However, I must be blind. I can't seem to find
the "X-Loop" field in 2 of the three headers presented from the debian list.
The headers are verbatim snapshots of the typical messages that I receive from
the debian-user list. What do you think?
To Brian White,
Thanks for the filter list. Please inspect the above headers and let me know
if your list would correctly filter them. While your filter is very
comprehensive, I believe that it would not filter messages which lack the
"X-Mailing-List" field.
>Hi,
>
> Not to be left behind, mailagent users can try:
>========================================================================
># The mailing lists I subscribe to:
>#get Debian stuf outa here first
>X-Mailing-List X-Loop To Cc Resent-From Resent-To Resent-Reply-To:
> /DEBIAN/i { VACATION off; UNIQUE -a; REJECT Debian };
>
>#
># munch, munch
>#
>
><Debian> X-Mailing-List X-Loop To Cc Resent-From Resent-To Resent-Reply-To:
> /(debian-[\w-]+)(-(request|dist))?\@lists.debian.org/i
> { ASSIGN list %1;
> SUBST #list /-(request|dist)//gi;
> SUBST #list /devel-changes/changes/i;
> ANNOTATE X-Debian-list %#list;
> SAVE %#list.spool};
><Debian> All: /./ { ANNOTATE X-Debian-list Unknown; SAVE debian.spool};
>========================================================================
>
> manoj
Thanks for the filter. Based on the headers that I see day to day, Your filter
appears to be the only one which will correctly catch all the variations of
debian-user messages. Thanks!
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