Am Wed, 22. March 2006 02:49 schrieb Ride_Ride_Ride: > Hi everyone > > Recently, I joined this Lyx ML. > > Why this ML doesn't use a title, intuitively recognized as Lyx ML mail. > Such as, [Lyx users ML: 000001],,, > > I receive many mails, almost drowning. I need easy title to recognize > that this mail belongs to Lyx ML. > > Takashi Shiihara from Japan.
You are using Thunderbird [1] so it might be a good idea to add a filter for this list. (And maybe also for other lists you are subscribed to) It will need some further configuration of thunderbird. But I will bet if you use filtering of incomming emails to folders for only a short time you will never want to miss this. And may be you will also find it funny when you see such questions like yours then. So please do yourself a faivour and configure and use filters for your subscribed mailing lists (and for your fellows, sweethearts, whatsoever :) For this: - add a new local folder to your list of folders right click on 'local folders' and choose 'new folder' give it a usefull name, e.g. 'LyX' - add a filter rule · from the thunderbird menu choose 'Extras' -> 'Filters' · at the top there is an entry 'filter for...' right of this you will see a drop down button · click this button and select the mail account for which you want to add a filter. It should be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' if you prefer to work with imap mail folders. If you prefer using to download your email via a pop account it should be 'local folders' · now select the 'New...' button at the right of the window · give a 'Filter Name' to this new filter, e.g. 'lyx-users' · push the drop down button which shows 'subject' and select 'customize' (it is the last entry at the bottom of the list) · now fill in 'List-Post' and click the OK button [2] · you are back at the 'edit filter' window · select the drop down button 'subject' again and choose 'List-Post' · the drop down list right of 'List-Post' should show 'contains' (the first entry at the top of the drop down list) If not select it. · Fill in 'lyx-users@lists.lyx.org' in the input box at the right. · now choose an action to tell the filter what to do if a mail with the header 'List-Post' and 'lyx-users@lists.lyx.org' comes in. Choose 'move ... to' (... should be mail or news, according to the english translation, sorry my thunderbird speaks german ;-) · right of this choose the button to place where to put the mail in. Choose 'LyX', this is the name of the folder we added at the first beginning. · click the 'OK' button · you are back to the 'Filter' window · click on the bottom right button 'jetzt ausfuehren' in german, in english it should be a term saying 'make use of the filter now' From now on all emails from lyx-users list shoud immediately go to your local folder 'LyX'. You will find some more input including screenshots on how to use filters: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_%28Thunderbird%29 http://opensourcearticles.com/thunderbird_15/english/part_07 BTW. Using filters and sorting emails to certain folders or virtual folders (e.g. by evolution) is the one and only state of the art to handle a huge ammount of lists and postings. Adding pseudo subjects like [Lyx users ML: 000001] as you mentioned is a bad habbit which shows that the subscribers and often also the adminstrators of a mailing list are on a not high skill level (quite close to poor). And sooner or later it will drive you round the bend. ;-). It is a bit like a companies post office wich tags all incomming (snail) mail with post-it lables and then having all this (may be thousands) mails in a single carton box. No one would do so, not if he or she is not close to brain dead :-)) It's state of the art since the early beginning of mail communication to sort mail in folders. And everyone knows this, but by using email a lot of people seem to forget such fundametal attainments. Funny, isn't it. ;-) regards, Thomas [1] So says one of the headers of your email: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) [2] What we've done so far is adding a new email header as a filter criteria. The lyx-user email list uses 'List-Post'. List-Post is one header which is sent by the lyx mail server. It says: 'List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' You will see all the headers by choosing 'View' -> 'Headers' -> 'All' from the thunderbird menu. The header 'List-Post' is not used by all mailing list servers but it is one of the most used one. If you have a closer look to the header fields you should always find a header which contains the term 'list'. So at least if the list manager knows how to do the job. E.G. 'X-Mailing-List' is another common used mailing list header.