Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-22 Thread Trey Gruel
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:34:00 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for those who have gmail and cannot sort on List-ID, is it possible to filter on something like: To: OR cc: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ie this covers any host name between the @ and the gentoo.org just tried something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-22 Thread Jim Hatfield
: Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:27:24 - MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 10 List-Help: mailto

[gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Hatfield
I filter mail from mailing lists based on the To: address. Most mails from this list are addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], however a few are addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a problem since I can just add it to the filter but I was curious. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:27:24PM +, Jim Hatfield wrote: I filter mail from mailing lists based on the To: address. Most mails from this list are addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], however a few are addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a problem since I can just add it to the filter but I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread brettholcomb
There should be a LIST ID header you can filter on which might help. From: Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/21 Mon PM 01:27:24 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin? I filter mail from mailing lists based on the To: address. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Trey Gruel
There should be a LIST ID header you can filter on which might help. unfortunately, not everyone can filter on headers like that. gmails filters are restricted to to, from, subject, and message content (i've got an enhancement request in to expand it). lots of gui mail clients are similarly

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Trey Gruel wrote: There should be a LIST ID header you can filter on which might help. unfortunately, not everyone can filter on headers like that. gmails filters are restricted to to, from, subject, and message content (i've got an enhancement request in to expand it). lots of gui mail clients

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread John Myers
On Monday 21 February 2005 10:48, Holly Bostick wrote: And if Thunderbird can do it, Mozilla probably can too. KMail, I don't know. KMail actually has a really nice feature: right-click on the message's entry in the list, then Create Filter-Filter on mailing list name-of-list, which uses the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Not necessarily... obviously there's nothing one can do about gmail, but I just did a test on Thunderbird, which does not natively give you the List-Id header as a choice in the message filters fields. That's not the point though is it? - users

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Andrew Gaffney
A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Not necessarily... obviously there's nothing one can do about gmail, but I just did a test on Thunderbird, which does not natively give you the List-Id header as a choice in the message filters fields. That's not the point though is it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:24:58 -0600 Andrew Gaffney wrote: If users had decent filter setups to begin with, there would be nothing to alter. I haven't had to alter any of my filters because I filter on List-id. Indeed the OP said s/he filtered on the To: field, but this comes unstuck if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Holly Bostick
Andrew Gaffney wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Not necessarily... obviously there's nothing one can do about gmail, but I just did a test on Thunderbird, which does not natively give you the List-Id header as a choice in the message filters fields. That's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: It seems weird to hear a Gentoo user saying that users should be inflexible in their configurations-- and stand on that right, by gum! That's because I work for an ISP and the customer is pretty important. We try not to inconvenience the customer too

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Nick Rout wrote: Indeed the OP said s/he filtered on the To: field, but this comes unstuck if the list address was in the CC: or BCC: fields. I learned ages ago to filter on List-ID or something else unlikely to change. Unfortunately, maildrop's hasaddr() function (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 21 February 2005 03:26 pm, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Well, that's the thing. I don't consider my previous setup (filtering on Subject contains [gentoo-user] and the like) Speaking of, does anyone know how to turn that subject-munging off? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Andrew Gaffney
A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Nick Rout wrote: Indeed the OP said s/he filtered on the To: field, but this comes unstuck if the list address was in the CC: or BCC: fields. I learned ages ago to filter on List-ID or something else unlikely to change. Unfortunately, maildrop's hasaddr()

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Rout
for those who have gmail and cannot sort on List-ID, is it possible to filter on something like: To: OR cc: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ie this covers any host name between the @ and the gentoo.org I know procmail could do this. but then again if you have access to procmail you can use the List-Id

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:30:11 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | That's not the point though is it? - users shouldn't be *have* alter | their setups to deal with this. Then users shouldn't've made duff rules to begin with. We *do* say to filter on List-Id on the mailing lists page[1]... [1]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread David Morgan
On 11:41 Tue 22 Feb , Nick Rout wrote: Fair comment, but you are ignoring the gmail people who apparently cannot filter on List-ID - I say apparently because I have not tried it myself. They can do filter by subject though, and since all emails from gentoo-user have [gentoo-user] in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, I think the philosophy is that List-ID exists as part of the standards for mail transport so a decent client would handle it. They would provide the ability to filter on that field. From what I recall when I went through this one purpose of the header is to allow you to filter without

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread Qian Qiao
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:29:55 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think the philosophy is that List-ID exists as part of the standards for mail transport so a decent client would handle it. They would provide the ability to filter on that field. From what I recall