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Brian Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not at all, [subject tags] are ideal to use for email rules to sort >into different folders. No, they suck for filtering messages into different folders for exactly the reason that this thread is taking place: they're not guaranteed to be unique. A much better field to filter upon is Return-Path. If your MUA is lame and can't filter by regular expressions--which is necessary for lists that use VERPs--then you can use Mailing-List. I use qmail extension addresses: I subscribe to each list with a unique address and file incoming messages without filtering using a .qmail file dedicated to the list's subscribed address. No filtering overhead, no unreliable heuristics, and no trash necessary in the Subject field. The eight characters devoted to "[users] " is noise that just serves to push some of the real information in the Subject off the screen. >I get between 50-100 emails a day, and need to prioritise which i >read immediatly, and which I leave until later. That's a small fraction of the number I get, but let's not start a mailbox size contest. -Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
