Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:46:18 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: lkml subject line |
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Harrold wrote:
>> > There are advantages: distinguish personal messages from mailing list >> > messages, and distinguish between different mailing lists. And >> > disadvantages - maybe only one: sacrificing valuable Subject: line >> > space. >> >> The advantages can all be gained without that disadvantage by just learning >> to filter mail on other headers instead of the subject line. > >Assuming your mail reader can do that (and no, I can't change my mail >reader).
You can use procmail to filter your mail VERY easily. Penalizing an entire list of 7000 people or more just because 3 people can't use a sane modern mail reader is just senseless.
This filters linux-kernel into the folder LINUX-KERNEL
cat >> ~/.procmailrc <<EOF :0: * ^X-Mailing-List:.*linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * ^Sender:.*linux-kernel-owner@vger LINUX-KERNEL
EOF
That said, and while we're on the topic.. Does anyone have a *PERFECT* recipe for procmail to REMOVE the stupid [Dummy] things most GNU mailman lists and others prepend to the subject?
xpert@xfree86.org is one such list and I have given up on complaining to list maintainers of other lists to change this, and would rather fix it on my end once than complain to others.
I asked on procmail-list and got some feedback but it didn't give me a useable filter..
Any help appreciated.. TTYL
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