-----Original Message----- From: Chris G <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Evolution] message filters not working Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:32 +0000
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:16:06PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 20:54 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:10:35PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:46 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:56:52PM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > The one I created for the [email protected] works fine, > > > > > > > > but the > > > > > > > > ones I have created for my various ubuntu and security mailing > > > > > > > > lists > > > > > > > > don't work. I created all the rules the same. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Basically, filter on mailing list and I double-check the > > > > > > > > mailing-list > > > > > > > > name/address. I then tell the filter to move the message to a > > > > > > > > folder on > > > > > > > > my local system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The easiest way is to right click on one of the mailing list > > > > > > > messages, > > > > > > > select "Create rule from message" -> "Filter based on mailing > > > > > > > list". If > > > > > > > there is not the information in the mailing list messages to be > > > > > > > able to > > > > > > > filter, then that option won't be present. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (The mailing list filtering requires certain headers to be > > > > > > > present - > > > > > > > it's not just based on the list mail address - the headers all > > > > > > > start > > > > > > > 'List-') > > > > > > > > > > > > > But *very many* mailing lists don't have those List headers. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure, but that's not Evo's fault! In that case you can't filter as a > > > > > mailing list, you will have to filter on sender address. The "Filter > > > > > on > > > > > Mailing List" *requires* those headers to be present - that's how Evo > > > > > knows that it's a mailing list email, otherwise it looks like any > > > > > other > > > > > email to Evo. > > > > > > > > > In the 'real world' that's not very helpful to the user is it. > > > > > > > > For this very reason mutt (for example) has configuration options to > > > > tell it what addresses are mailing lists so it doesn't rely on 'well > > > > behaved' mailing lists. > > > > > > And how does Mutt know which addresses are mailing lists? > > > > > You tell it, that's what I meant by 'configuration options'. Hardly > > rocket science! :-) > > You mean like you tell the Evo filter to look for a ListId header? > What you tell mutt is that a certain address (in To:, From:, Cc: etc.) is a mailing list address, the specification is a regular expression with which you can specify as much as is needed to remove ambiguity. Chris, thanks for the info, but the ubuntu lists are actually weell-behaved lists. I used the whole right-=click - create rule from - filter on mailing list for all the lists I am a part of, but the evolution list is the only one that works properly. I guess evolution likes its list the best :-) Love, Me
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