Ryan, Thank you for taking the time to look into this.
Regards, J On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:18, Jerome Yanga wrote: > >> Like many, I subscribe to a lot of mailing list. When I create a rule >> in Outlook and put all the email addresses of all the mailing lists >> that I subscribe to, Outlook comes back to me and says that I have >> used up the maximum rules. I cannot give you the exact error I get >> but it is something to that effect. This is the reason why I started >> using the subject line to organize my emails instead of the From >> field. Using the subject line in the rules seem to allow me to have >> just one rule for all the subscriptions that I am on. > > I guess I don't understand why Outlook would allow you to create rules using > the Subject header but impose a restrictions on rules using all other headers. > > Even if that's the case, we're not interested in adding a mailing list > subject prefix, for all the usual reasons. I was hoping I could find a > pre-written explanation somewhere I could link you to, but I can't at the > moment. The two reasons that spring immediately to mind are: > > 1) Adding a subject prefix reduces the amount of space available for useful > subject information. I already filter all mailing lists into their own > folders, using the headers already available to do that; I don't want each > message in that folder to have a prefix on the subject line making it harder > for me to see what the real subject of the message is. At the current size of > my mail program's main window, I only have about 7 cm for the subject; I > don't want a third of that used up with a prefix that adds no value. > > 2) Modifying the subject header violates email sending RFCs. > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
