On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:06:27AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:58:37PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> | I remembered that Anand mentioned a 'panacea' for mailing-list overload a
> | while back, so I peeked though the archives and found it:
> |
> | :0:
> | * ^((List-Id|X-(Mailing-)?List):(.*[<]\/[^>]*))
> | {
> | LISTID=$MATCH
> |
> | :0:
> | * LISTID ?? .*\/[^@.]*
> | Lists/$MATCH
> | }
> |
> | Only, for most of my lists, including SLUG, it doesn't work! Everything
> | falls through into my normal box. Is this just a problem for old lists, or have I
>buggered it up?
>
> [Aside] Your reply-to or from is busted - my reply just tried to mail
> "jdub" instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - FIX THIS!
>
> Your recipe is incomplete. Many (most) lists don't put in a List-Id or
> X-(Mailing-)?List header. I filter this on To: line first and when that
> misses I usually fall back onto the Sender: line. For slug I have:
The recipie is fine, it is just that only `newer' mailing lists are likely
to have implemented RFC2369. Slug, unfortunately, isn't one of them.
> Linux-SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Linux-SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
another would be [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think
> Linux-SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Linux-SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've found, emperically, that only spammers are using the spectrum submission
addresses so I blackhole mail sent to those.
> Linux-SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Linux-SLUG "sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> Linux-SLUG "sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
The problem is that since Slugs' mailing list doesn't implement some form
of List-Id or X-Mailing-List identifier you need to pick something constant
to sort on.
> (No, I'm not using procmail.) So that's 5 different To: patterns and two
> Sender: patterns.
Using regular expressions beings that down to 1 sender and 2 different `To:'
addresses. Filtering on sender is bad because if a mailing list moves
your filters break. Filtering on To: is bad because when you start to have
people sending Bcc to a lists (or list to list discussions). Having a
constant identifier helps.
Anand
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