On 06/27/2014 09:52 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > >> On 06/27/2014 08:36 PM, PaulNM wrote: > >>> On 06/27/2014 02:00 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > >>>> I didn't or at least not on purpose. I just reply to the list on >>>> a random message and make a new topic of it for light >>>> convenience. I didn't know it could do any harm. And actually, I >>>> even don't understand how you can know that ? Please explain, I >>>> will sleep a bit light less dumber tonight. ;) >>> >>> It's in the email headers. Look at at the whole header sometime, >>> there's quite a bit of info in there. >>> >>> In Thunderbird/IceDove : View -> Headers -> All >>> >>> Among many, many other things, you'll see "In reply to". There's >>> also a host of list related stuff like "List-Id" and >>> "List-Unsubscribe" headers. List-Id in particular is useful to use >>> for filtering. >>> >>> 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 ? > > It's better because: > > * The List-ID header appears only in messages from the list, and in > every message from the list. > > * The List-ID header should theoretically never change, even if the > mailing list address changes (which can happen if, e.g., it moves to be > hosted by a different server). > > * The list E-mail address can appear in different headers (From, To, CC, > et cetera - sometimes depending on the mailing list, sometimes just > depending on the particular mail), and it's harder to properly filter on > multiple headers than on just one. > > * In some cases (I haven't figured them all out yet), the list E-mail > address may not appear in the message at all. > > * If you post to a mailing list, and someone hits Reply All on your > post, you will get two copies of the reply (unless your mail provider > filters one out, which has disadvantages). Both copies will include the > list's E-mail address somewhere, but only one of them actually came > through the list, so only one of them should be caught by the filter - > and only one of them will have the List-ID header.
Now I see your point. >> And actually how do you use this ? > > That depends on your mail client. I know how to do it in Thunderbird 2, > and it's almost certainly very similar in current Thunderbird / Icedove, > but I don't have a functional Icedove instance nearby to give exact > directions. I tried to customize a new filter "List-Id" but it didn't take it. It will take more researches I guess. >>> 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.. > > That's... really weird, because your User-Agent header reads: > > ======== > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.6.0 > ======== > > Which not only mentions the absolutely most current release version of > Icedove - even though Outlook Express hasn't seen a new release in years > last I heard - but also claims that you're using 64-bit Linux. (And > Outlook Express barely runs on modern Windows AFAIK, much less on > Linux.) Sorry for misleading you but it was just a joke. And thanks for the explanations, that was worth the brain little extra heat ! :) -- “One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.” “Le vrai n'est pas plus sûr que le probable.” Diogene Laerce
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