Hello all,

I searched the archives and didn’t quite find the info I’m looking for.  I’ll 
have to bore you with some details of some changes I recently made to get to my 
point…

I had been using procmail $forever.  I just recently kicked over to maildrop.  
So far so great.  To that end - I have a pretty neat piece of config that 
autocreates and files mailing list messages based on List-ID header.  To my 
surprise - some “marketing” types of mail (i.e. my bank, retailers, etc) were 
getting filed info folders like “1901173” and the like.  Digging in - I see 
headers with a List-ID of NNNNNN.xt.local (I believe the xt is ExactTarget).  I 
really want these to come to my inbox (so at least I can unsubscribe from them) 
- and I certainly don’t want the mess of cryptically named folders getting 
created.  I know this is part of the tradeoff in trusting List-ID and creating 
folders, but for 99% of what I do - this is legitimate “good old fashioned” 
(technical) mailing lists.

Has anyone dealt with this issue and would care to share ?  For now I have a 
simple regex matching the NNNNNN.xt.local and short circuiting into my inbox.  
I suppose Ill come across any other outliers like this going forward - but was 
hoping perhaps someone on the list already had some good regex to catch more of 
these.

PS: Mini-rant.  I guess the List-ID header isn’t the sacred ground of only 
“real” mailing lists - but I was (naively perhaps) surprised that a “cloud 
marketing solution” would be using it in the manner than they are.

Thanks in advance for any wise words on this.

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