On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:23:27PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> On 20/06/2001 at 15:05 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >You should probably be filtering on the Return-Path: header instead.
> >It's the one generated from the SMTP envelope, and is a better indicator
> >of where the mail actually came from.
>
> Hmm. That's not a bad idea, but the List-ID: header is a
> non-configurable [0] Mailman addition, and some people who use Procmail
> have magic to autofilter on it.
That's great until you come to a list that does things differently. Be
it smartlist, ezmlm, majordomo or one of the billion other crappy
mailing list managers out there. Thank $DEITY that more and more people
are switching to mailman. It ain't perfect, but it's better than most
of the others.
-Dom
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