As I was dusting off my mutt build tree, I found the below patch, which is
almost certainly wrong, but which solves an important problem for me.
Unfortunately, more and more mailing lists (Mailchimp, &c.) these days have
seen fit to put one's personal address in the To: field, making it more
annoying. In most cases it's feasible to change the list subscription address
such that that doesn't happen, but in some cases not.
It's really annoying when such messages appear in ~p (MUTT_PERSONAL_RECIP). I
find myself regularly limiting to ~p !~s foobar, to exclude that list, which is
not nice.
In the case of the most annoying of these lists (and whose subscription address
I cannot change and I also do not wish to unsubscribe from), list messages are
identified by a variable From: field matching a pattern, e.g.:
From: Foo Bar <forumredacted+d1234-s999...@domain.com>
(This particular list is from Vanilla Forums, I think.)
The below patch, when evaluating ~p, searches the From field against the
unalternates list and excludes such messages from ~p. This is obviously wrong
because unalternates is supposed to be about recipient (To:/Cc:) fields, not
sender (From:) fields.
But I'm not sure what the right fix should be? Maybe it should involve
"lists"/"subscribe" functionality, which are not something that I really use (I
have some lists in my muttrc that date from ... last century. Some still get
mail.) But I think that lists (e.g. MUTT_LIST, MUTT_SUBSCRIBED_LIST: ~l, ~u)
have the same general problem as MUTT_PERSONAL_RECIP, namely they only look at
h->env->to and h->env->cc but not, say, env->from-mailbox.
So, what's the right way to solve this annoying problem? Is it necessary to
introduce a whole additional set of RX_LISTs for matching against From: fields
for lists, subscribedlists, their un- variants, and unalternates (and maybe
Alterates, too, but that's unlikely)? Or to add some kind of flag extending
their language to apply them to sender fields? Or... I just don't know?
Thanks.
--jh...@mit.edu
John Hawkinson
--- hdrline.c.dist 2016-08-10 21:47:00.000000002 -0400
+++ hdrline.c 2016-08-30 23:09:42.000000002 -0400
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@
h->recipient = 2; /* non-unique recipient */
else
h->recipient = 1; /* unique recipient */
+
+ if (mutt_match_rx_list(env->from->mailbox, UnAlternates)) {
+ h->recipient = 0;
+ }
}
else if (user_in_addr (env->cc))
h->recipient = 3;
