John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > Can we configure this mailing list better? > > Many (all?) of the messages posted have no obvious indication of which > mailing list they are coming from. > > The subject line is something like "bug#12345: description" > The To: field is 12...@debbugs.gnu.org > > In general, it takes a lot of detective work to discover that message > relates to guile. > No, it doesn't, there's a List-Id header in all messages sent out via the list:
List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" <bug-guile.gnu.org> You should use an email client (MUA) or mail delivery agent (MDA) which can act on that header, and group all (e.g.) bug-guile mails into their own folder (or view, or however your client calls that). Putting an identifier into the subject just clutters the view for people who have set up their email clients appropriatly for use with mailing list. >From the email headers of your post, it seems you use mutt; I don't know if mutt has built-in support for grouping based on List-Id (I'd guess no), but you can use a tool (MDA) like "maildrop"[1], "scmail"[2] or "procmail"[3]" to automatically put the email you receive via mailing lists into different (e.g.) IMAP mailboxes. [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ [2] http://0xcc.net/scmail/index.html.en [3] http://www.procmail.org/ Personally, I use scmail, as I quite like its Scheme-based configuration file format; here's what I've done on a Debian system to set this up (I'm hopefully not forgetting something here): Create a .forward file containing the following single line in your $HOME, to process incoming mail with scmail: | /usr/bin/scmail-deliver Then, follow the instructions on the scmail homepage[1], creating ~/.scmail/config and ~/.scmail/deliver-rules to split your incoming mail into multiple mailboxes; I use the following rules for the Guile lists: (add-filter-rule! '(list-id (#/guile-devel\.gnu\.org/i "lists/guile-devel")) '(list-id (#/guile-user\.gnu\.org/i "lists/guile-user")) '(list-id (#/bug-guile\.gnu\.org/i "lists/guile-bug"))) The exact destinations you can use (e.g. "lists/guile-devel") depends on which program access your mail (IMAP server, local MUA). For a mutt instance running on the same system, my config looks like [4]. Note that this config is not polished at all; I use mutt on the server only as a fallback. [4] http://rotty.xx.vu/git/dotfiles/mutt/tree/.muttrc > Can it not be configured to Prepend the Subject: line with Bug-Guile > or something similar? That way it'd be easier to manage - either > manually or automatically. > As mentioned above, this is not a good idea. Kind regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.xx.vu/>
