Tim:
> > I did various tests on other headers, just sending local mail, it
> > didn't care how I'd capitalised "subject" in:
> >
> >   if exists "subject"
> >
> > They all worked.

Stephen Morris:
> In my situation Thunderbird's rules didn't pick up "List-Id" so it looks 
> like Thunderbird is case sensitive.

From what I read of the specifications (in RFCs) they should be case-
insensitive, so Thunderbird may strike problems if they're doing that.


> > This message from you in reply to mine wasn't highlighted though, since
> > my address doesn't appear anywhere in the recipient addresses.  In this
> > day and age of necessary address munging, there's no simple solution to
> > make it always do what I want.  Some messages will be simply addressed
> > to: [email protected]
> >
> > Still, it goes some way to catching my attention, even if some messages
> > are missed.

> Sorry Tim, I removed your address from the list when I did a reply, as I 
> didn't know you were looking for that address in your processes, I just 
> assumed it was irrelevant given it's name. I'll leave it there in future.

That's fine.  It's something the list had done (most likely because
it's munging my address), I hadn't set it up, but was just taking
advantage of it being there.

I never know whether to remove or leave extra addresses in, either. 
You can't tell who's arranged it on purpose, and when the list has just
thrown them in for its own reasons.

If I actually received duplicates because of it, it would be a pain. 
But the auto-deletion rules take care of it.

In days gone past, some list mail servers handle this well.  They'd
take the name of the author, put it front of the list's reply-to
address, and responses would go to the list but get the attention of
the person it should.  And some mail clients would notice that the
content of your emails had started off with your name in the "Dear ..."
or "Hi ..." opening lines, and highlight messages that were actually to
you, as opposed to general mail.

e.g. Your message would come from Stephen Morris <[email protected]>
with this as reply-to Stephen Morris <[email protected]> and any
reply to your post would use that as its TO address.

It worked simply and neatly.  Except when someone replies to a random
message in a thread, instead of the person who wrote the part of the
thread they're really responding to.  There's no perfect solution.

-- 
 
uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64
(yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted)
 
Boilerplate:  All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.
 

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