On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > On 06/27/2014 08:36 PM, PaulNM wrote: >> In Thunderbird/IceDove you'll have to add it as a custom header when >> setting up the filter, but it's *way* better than trying to filter by >> the contents of the subject line or to address. > > I saw it but I don't understand how it could be *way* better than using > the address for filtering. And actually how do you use this ? >
The Wanderer listed quite a few good reasons, including some I hadn't thought of. Previously, I had to create filters moving messages based on subject. For example, some lists I'm on prepend every email's subject line with {ListName}. A problem is when I forward a message to a friend, their reply would get filtered into the folder I use for the mailing list, even though it never went to the mailing list. List-Id based filtering makes it obvious when someone replies directly to you. Real fun comes when someone forwards a message from one mailing list to another. If they both do the above subject line munging, and you have filters for both, the things get "interesting". All messages end up in whichever filter runs first, regardless of actual mailing list origin. Also, many technically-oriented mailing lists (like Debian's) don't do that, as they try to avoid mail munging. In the Thunderbird/IceDove new filter dialog box, the default is to match on subject. If you click on "subject", at the very bottom of the list is "Customize". That brings in a box where you can add headers to filter by. After that point, it'll show up in the same list as Subject/From/Body/etc. > >> Oh, there's also "User-Agent", which is how I know you use IceDove. :) > > In fact, I use outlook express but it sends the icedove signature to > look cool. The Oedipe complex I guess.. > > Odd, I just double-checked. All of your messages to the list in June are similar, the only difference being a minor version bump. I suspect you were joking? Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.5.0 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.6.0 For those interested, there's a pretty neat extension (Display Mail User Agent) that'll put a large icon in the header area of the screen showing what email client the sender used. It's slightly out of date, so some of the icon are a little old. There's a way to use a .csv to change the icons if you really want to, though. - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53added5.5040...@paulscrap.com