On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > If you use mutt to read your mail, tell it that you subscribe | > to "debian-user" mailing list. | | Or, better, just tell it that debian-user is a list. Maybe I'm just | doing something wrong, but whenever I add a "subscribe <list>" to my | .muttrc, the to/from column shows "To <listname>" for all list | messages. If I use "lists <list>", it does the Right Thing and shows | the sender's name. | | Of course, if anyone could tell me what I've done wrong...
What you did wrong was leave mutt with the default settings ;-). I suppose it's useful if you don't have procmail to tell you already which list the message came from. Here's what I do (lots of irrelevant options snipped): -------------------------------------------------------------- # work-around broken mailing list software set ignore_list_reply_to = yes set forward_format = "FW: %s" # default action (index_format is default, except it displays "From" instead) folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s" # sorting for inbox folder-hook "!" set sort=date-received # display To, not From, in Sent folder #folder-hook Sent set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s" # sorting for lists # display the author's real name, not the list (or my name!) in index view folder-hook lists.* set sort=threads ; set sort_aux=date ; \ set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b%d} %-15.15n(%4l,%3M) %s%| " -------------------------------------------------------------- The other difference bewteen "lists" and "subscribe" is that with subscribe your address is left out of the Mail-Followup-To: header so you don't get a double-copy. With "lists" mutt thinks you are not subscribed to the list so it adds your address you get a "double" copy, which is really the only copy you get because you aren't subscribed. | Great feature, isn't it? Definitely :-). -D