On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:23:02 -0800 Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:15:16 -0700 > > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > The best practice when filtering list traffic is apparently to use the > > > > 'list-id' header (to catch 'to', 'cc', etc). But the best > > > > practice is also apparently to undigest digest emails with formail > > > > (greatly easing reading, threading and replying), which doesn't > > > > preserve the 'list-id' header. Is there no choice, then, but to filter > > > > by 'to' (and 'cc' etc.)? > > > > > > Couldn't you reinsert the list-id header? That is, pull out the list-id > > > header before undigesting, store it, undigest, insert list-id. > > > > Thanks. That seems to be the consensus solution, to either do that, or > > quickly and dirtily to just insert a hard-coded list header. > > You didn't mention how you're doing the filtering, but procmail uses a > special pattern to match stuff, e.g., maybe something like: > > * \/List_id: .* > > then later, > > formail -a "$MATCH" ... That's what I half realized in another message in this thread where I wrote: > I'm not > sure how to do the latter without some sort of variable assignment, but > I'm no procmail expert, but have several entries doing this sort of thing. > It generally takes me much trial & error to work out the procmail code, > but then it just runs behind the scenes and I forget about it. I know what you mean. > OT, but one concern I have is that stuff like this gets added to > .procmailrc but rarely if ever gets taken out. Sometime it might be nice > to move to a more transparent, less arcane filtering system, and maybe > such a system could keep track of how often patterns actually get hit. > > Ken Thanks for the suggestion, Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
