On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:19:31PM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:56:47PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > I have just started to notice on a few of the mailing lists that I
> > subscribe to this footnote appears on the message:
> >
> > [ Note: This message contains email list management information ]
> >
> > and looking in the headers I find the likes of:
> [...sample headers deleted...]
>
> > Can someone elaborate on this, what list manager provides it (I know one
> > is ezmlm), and any other useful doco as I definitely have a use for this.
>
> Mailman is one that uses it. Definitely in version 2.0 (which is in late
> beta currently) and I can't remember if it's in the 1.x releases or not.
No it isn't otherwise it'd be on the SLUG mailing list as well. I think
it was in beta 6 or RC1 Mailman.
> These headers are starting to be seen more and more lately as Mailman
> makes a play for the "mailing list manager of choice" title. :-)
All MLA (Mail List Agents) will have them shortly. Majordomo and ezmlm
have had them for a while.
> > Has anyone noticed whether this footnote appears in mail clients other
> > than Pine, which I use.
>
> It certainly isn't appearing in mutt as I have it set up presently --
> which is something pretty close to default configuration as far as
> displaying messages goes.
You are probably ignoring the List-* headers -- as Mutt does not do
anything useful with these headers at the moment.
Only Pine and Eudora do ATM.
Anand
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