On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 07:43 -0500, Greg Harris wrote: > > >My MacOSX Mail application cannot sort mail from here into the right > > >postboxes. > > Then you must not be doing it right. Any message coming > > through the list has in the headers: > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I haven't had a problem with sorting on that with any tool that I > > have tried. > > > > While I see how some people may want to have some special identifier > > in the Subject of the message, I think the claims that they can't get > > things auto-sorted are exagerations. More often it's the case > > they don't want to auto-sort, but be able to quickly pick things out > > of their unsorted incoming message list. > > > > Getting the Subject line tags right can be a problem too. Some clients > > mess up various replies so you get things like > > Re: [info-cyrus] RE: [info-cyrus] FWD:Re: [info-cyrus] put on the subject > > line. > > > > -_Gene > > While I agree with you that sorting is probably possible on any client, it > is really nice when the tags are in place. They make things much cleaner > when the occasional e-mail jumps through the hoops because of a slight > change in the addressing scheme. If I can set my filter to look for any > instance of [Info-Cyrus] in the subject line, then everything that is > supposed to go to that folder goes and nothing else. > > While some subject lines do get a little messy, it is easier for a person to > jump past all of the junk in the subject line than to move messages between > folders. This is the only list that I know of that does not add a tag to > the subject line and I have always thought that it was a little weird and > wished it was there.
Well, it would be the only one that _does_ for me. There are some (mailman based) lists that by default do Subject: mangling, but luckily you can turn that off. I'm against any kind of header mangling by list software, unless there's a technical reason for it (like Sender:, which does make sense to change). If anyone is going to change current behaviour, please make it so it's user configurable. And I really can't think of any reason why those "occasional e-mail jumps through the hoop" should ever change the Sender: header. But I'm all for a List-Id: header if Sender: is not enough/good for most uses. Just my 0.02c. .TM. -- ____/ ____/ / / / / Marco Colombo ___/ ___ / / Technical Manager / / / ESI s.r.l. _____/ _____/ _/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html