Thank you, Mike, for the solution to the problem, at least in my
environment!
For readers who may not know how to apply your insight, here are some
hints. (Experts may delete this message now.)
I use Mozilla V1.6 as my mail user interface program. In this program,
Message Filters management is accessible through the Tools menu in the
main list display (not in a message display window). Each filter is
defined as a set of criteria and actions. The criteria compare a message
header field to a value. The message header field comes from a pull-down
list of things like "To" or "Subject" and this is where the novice might
get blocked because the field type "List-Id" does not appear in the
default list of field types. However, there is a selection called
"Customize" which you can click to request a dialog box that lets you
Add a new field name. You type in List-Id (no colon) and then it appears
in the field name pull-down list. Now you can create a filter item that
says essentially "If List-Id contains Elecraft, then Move Message to My
Elecraft Folder." If someone replies both to you and the list, then one
copy will get filtered to your Elecraft folder and the other to your
favored destination for personal email. Note that Mozilla processes
filters in the order they are listed until one is successful. It takes
the specified action and ignores further filter specs. You can reorder
the list with Move Up / Move Down buttons next to the list.
If you care: Mozilla has some quirks that made the discovery process for
the above a little tricky. There are lots of headers in typical email.
You have to turn on View/Headers/All in order to view all but the most
common headers. List-Id appears pretty far down the display of All
Headers and Mozilla 1.6 truncates header display to a fixed length, too
short to for List-Id to be displayed. File/Save As a text file doesn't
help because it doen't save any headers. However, if you forward the
message to yourself while viewing All Headers, the copy you receive will
show all the headers from the original, albeit in an unnecessarily fancy
format. You don't need to know this to apply the technique in the
previous paragraph but if you want to do similar research into headers
it might help.
GL & 73,
/Rick N6XI
Mike S wrote:
There is a unique header which is present on all messages coming from the list
server used by Elecraft, which has been available since at least 2001:
"List-Id: Elecraft Discussion List <elecraft.mailman.qth.net>"
Depending upon your MUA, "Elecraft" in header "List-Id: or "List-Id: Elecraft" in headers should be sufficient to unambiguously identify a message as coming from this discussion list.
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