> Mark Smith wrote: > > Why not just enable the "Avoid duplicate copies of > messages" option? > > Eh? In what? Probably because they aren't, strictly > speaking, duplicate > copies. Wait... *googling* Ah, you mean on mailman? > Simple reason. I > filter list mail into a folder by list headers. Those > headers are not present in the CC so they sit in my inbox. > So by turning nodupes on I would now have part of the > conversation in my inbox, part of the conversation in the > list folder. The only way around that would be to filter on > headers which are common to both the CC and the list message > which puts us right back to the foolishness prior to the > mid-to-late 90s when list headers became common place. IE, > praying that the list admin would set something in the > Subject line, pray that all software packages along the way > handled it gracefully and praying for reply-to in spite of > what the net nazis thought RFC822 said. > Instead we now have List-ID for easy filtering, List-Post to > know where to send intial messages and replies to, and > Mail-Copies-To if one really were in the mood for CCs of list mail.
See what you're saying. Didn't occur to me as I just filter on the [exim] in the Subject line. - Mark -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
