Quoting ilf on 2010-04-08 16:09:46: > I'm confused by Mutts handling of mailing lists. > > First, I do not understand the difference of known lists (lists) and > subscribed lists (subscribe). If Mutt handles mail from a known list, > I'm probably subscribed, no?
Mutt's meaning of known and subscribed lists is covered in Chapter 3.11
of the manual. It's available in text [1] and html [2] formats on your
local system.
> Secondly, I find having to manually maintain a list of subscriptions in
> my config unreasonable. Why doesn't Mutt automatically lists/subscribe
> to lists based on the List-Id header? That's what it's for:
Chapter 4.8 of the manual states:
---
The first thing you must do is to let Mutt know what addresses you
consider to be mailing lists (technically this does not have to be a
mailing list, but that is what it is most often used for)
---
I believe Mutt uses List-Id: (me, ACK?), but at the time I type this
message I don't have access to the sources to confirm. From a recent
message on this list, to blr [3], I found that Mutt supports List-Post:
natively.
Quoting Michael Elkins on 2010-04-06 12:01:46
in Message-ID: <20100406140146.ga9...@sigpipe.org>:
> If you merely want <list-reply> to work properly, you might not even
> need to add a lists/subscribe line at all because I believe the Debian
> mailing lists all add a List-Post: header field, which Mutt should
> pick up.
List-Post: is specified in RFC 2369, Section 3.4 [4]. From grepping my
maildir, almost all of my lists support List-Id: and List-Post:. Of
course, YMMV depending on what kind of lists you read.
> [Snip: Rest of your message]
See above: concerns you raise, indirectly, in the remainder of this post
seem to be addressed above to the best of my ability. Please let me know
if that's not the case.
[1] file:///usr/share/doc/mutt/html/index.html
[2] file:///usr/share/doc/mutt/index.txt.gz
[3] I refer to myself as 'blr' and not 'me' in this to eliminate
ambiguity.
[4] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2919.txt
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