On 2018-08-10 at 08:29, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:46:12AM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Not familiar with procmail. A quick perusal of the manpage seems >> to indicate this is a local mail "processor" for sorting things, as >> opposed to say something on the mailserver itself? > > Correct. Procmail uses a set of rules to decide what to go with messages > presented to it; those rules are usually based on the contents of message > headers, but don't have to be. For example, for this mailing list: > > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List:.*<debian-user@lists.debian.org> > /home/rsk/linux/debian-user > > Translating, this means that any message which has the specified header > will be appended to the file named in the last line. (It would be nice > if the debian lists complied with RFC 2919 by using List-Id, but at least > this header works and is consistent throughout.)
Hm? The Debian mailing lists I'm on *do* have List-Id; that's how I filter them into folders on my end, although I do it via Thunderbird's built-in filtering mechanism rather than via procmail. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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