Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized
On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:40, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so
> > > that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a
> > > folder. I was going to set up the filter based on from or subject
> > > but i don't see anything to base it on. Any ideas?
> >
> > Haven't used Mozilla. But in KMail, I setup a filter based on TO,
> > and it pretty much filters 99.99% of the mails, and puts them into
> > a specific folder.
> >
> > You should setup your email program, to filter mails, which are
> > addressed to the followings:
> >
> > debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > debian-user-digest@lists.debian.org
> > debian-user-digest@list.debian.org
> > debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net
> >
> > There are probably others. But these 4 are the most used ones.
>
> Don't filter on To:/Cc: if you can possibly avoid it; it's
> unreliable. Use X-Mailing-List: instead. (If your filtering program
> doesn't support filtering on arbitrary headers, complain to its
> authors.)
Oh, well I didn't know this. Maybe bacause filtering on To:/Cc always
worked for me. But I can see why filtering on X-Mailing-List is
better. I checked my KMail settings, and it supprorts this mailing list
filtering feature. I guess it's time for me to change my filters :-)
Cheers
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Aryan Ameri
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