Nick,
If you've got cycles to work on this, work on custom header support
instead of just adding "List-Id:".
see related bugs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16902
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16904
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56273
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61493
-Seth
Nick Lamb wrote:
> In bug 83338 I have suggested an enhancement for Mail News which would
> make Mozilla a more acceptable choice for those who receive a lot of
> mail from mailing lists.
>
> Stephen suggested that I ask here for feedback on what people would
> expect from this feature, how the UI should look etc.
>
> What I was proposing (don't leap up and down, I will try to write a
> patch but not in the next few weeks) is the following...
>
> Most of us who subscribe to one or more high traffic mailing lists know
> that it's vital to filter list traffic into a separate folder. Until
> recently the methods for doing this reliably tended to be arcane, and
> often specific to one list or listserver.
>
> RFC2919 specifies a header line looking like this
>
> List-Id: Arbitrary Description <unique.list.id.example.com>
>
> This is a robust, purpose-made filter trigger. Many lists emit this line
> already (if you read a lot of lists check the headers) and already some
> lists I subscribe to specify List-Id as the only recommended way to
> filter the list traffic.
>
> I think the existing Mozilla filters feature can be trivially expanded
> to let users filter on "List-Id" and take advantage of the work done in
> getting RFC2919 accepted by list owners and server developers.
>
> The current Filter UI offers "Subject", "Sender", "Date", "Priority",
> "Status", "To", "CC", "To or CC" - the filtering rules available for
> each type of filter vary.
>
> I intend to add a further option to this drop-down, which reads
> "List-Id" and initially offers the same types of rule as "Subject" the
> effect of the rule would of course apply to the "List-Id:" header as
> described above
>
> e.g.
>
> [List-Id v] [Contains v] <example.list.example.com>
>
>
> Does anyone have any objections to this design? Suggestions? Gotchas I
> should know about when trying to implement it?
>
> Nick.
>
>
