22 Oct
2011
22 Oct
'11
7:09 p.m.
At 03:00 PM 10/22/2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
I do not share that opinion. ;) As I've said, I
don't want subject
tagging for automatic sorting of email. That is absolutely the wrong
way to do it, and as such, I'd never dream of doing it that way. (you
know how anal I am! ;)
I do not share your opinion. :-)
Here's what you should add to your .procmailrc, which will get you what
you want:
:0 fhw
* ^List-Id:.*<cctalk.classiccmp.org>
* ^Subject: \/.*
| formail -I "Subject: [CCTALK] $MATCH"
As I said, that's what the List-Id header is for: reliably identifying
mail from the list so you can handle it as you wish. While that's
helpful for sorting mail into folders, that's only one thing it's good for.
The dual nature of this list (cctech/cctalk) means that the list
management software gets confused with cross-posted email. I don't
think mailman (which I think is what's used) is smart enough to keep
from inserting the tech/talk subject tags multiple
times. Perhaps using
a single tag for both lists would work and avoid "Re:
[CCTECH] Re:
[CCTALK] [CCTECH] Re: Re: [CCTALK]" strings. Perhaps it's worthwhile
trying that (I don't personally object to inserting a single tag).
However, if the list management software can't deal with it, any hope
that list members will clean up subject lines before posting is
delusionary.
-Rick