Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:56:39AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| > (e) Anyway to automatically have the subject line identify the mailing
| > list. A few of my other mailing lists have that, example
| > Subject: [debian-user]: a big problem !!!
| > Subject: Re: [debian-user]: a big problem !!!
| > Subject: Re:[debian-user]: a big problem !!!
| > ** ick, I dislike when mail clients don't include the space after Re:
|
| If you're planning to use a Linux-based email client, you'll be able to
| filter your mail into folders based on any header, not just Subject.
| For Debian mailing lists, the X-Mailing-List header gives you both the
| name of the list and also the archive index of the message. Your message,
| for example, had this header when I received it:
|
| > X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/178258
|
| I use a popular mail filtering program called procmail. There are others
| as well.
|
| I suppose procmail could modify the headers of your incoming mail, if
| you really want to identify the list in the Subject header. I've never
| used it that way, though.
I use procmail this way to add a Lines: header so that mutt's display
of the message size is correct (using maildir folder).
# add the Lines: header if it is missing
:0 Bfh
* H ?? !^Lines:
* -1^0
* 1^1 ^.*$
| formail -A "Lines: $="
I don't really understand _how_ it works (it was given to me), but I'm
sure someone can modify it to munge the subject header.
-D
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