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