-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote:
> On 06/27/2014 08:36 PM, PaulNM wrote: > >> On 06/27/2014 02:00 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: >>> I didn't or at least not on purpose. I just reply to the list on >>> a random message and make a new topic of it for light >>> convenience. I didn't know it could do any harm. And actually, I >>> even don't understand how you can know that ? Please explain, I >>> will sleep a bit light less dumber tonight. ;) >> >> It's in the email headers. Look at at the whole header sometime, >> there's quite a bit of info in there. >> >> In Thunderbird/IceDove : View -> Headers -> All >> >> Among many, many other things, you'll see "In reply to". There's >> also a host of list related stuff like "List-Id" and >> "List-Unsubscribe" headers. List-Id in particular is useful to use >> for filtering. >> >> In Thunderbird/IceDove you'll have to add it as a custom header >> when setting up the filter, but it's *way* better than trying to >> filter by the contents of the subject line or to address. > > I saw it but I don't understand how it could be *way* better than > using the address for filtering. And actually how do you use this ? It's better because: * The List-ID header appears only in messages from the list, and in every message from the list. * The List-ID header should theoretically never change, even if the mailing list address changes (which can happen if, e.g., it moves to be hosted by a different server). * The list E-mail address can appear in different headers (From, To, CC, et cetera - sometimes depending on the mailing list, sometimes just depending on the particular mail), and it's harder to properly filter on multiple headers than on just one. * In some cases (I haven't figured them all out yet), the list E-mail address may not appear in the message at all. * If you post to a mailing list, and someone hits Reply All on your post, you will get two copies of the reply (unless your mail provider filters one out, which has disadvantages). Both copies will include the list's E-mail address somewhere, but only one of them actually came through the list, so only one of them should be caught by the filter - and only one of them will have the List-ID header. > And actually how do you use this ? That depends on your mail client. I know how to do it in Thunderbird 2, and it's almost certainly very similar in current Thunderbird / Icedove, but I don't have a functional Icedove instance nearby to give exact directions. >> Oh, there's also "User-Agent", which is how I know you use IceDove. >> :) > > In fact, I use outlook express but it sends the icedove signature to > look cool. The Oedipe complex I guess.. That's... really weird, because your User-Agent header reads: ======== Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.6.0 ======== Which not only mentions the absolutely most current release version of Icedove - even though Outlook Express hasn't seen a new release in years last I heard - but also claims that you're using 64-bit Linux. (And Outlook Express barely runs on modern Windows AFAIK, much less on Linux.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTrcuHAAoJEASpNY00KDJrN5cP/RnVROlozvzSiVIiiKq2Fljp OThSH6NxHHc6RexZPOh6RkqvtyL/xNM9W8Y5EjZnR/4RdtvcpPhs+YpPPnoT2QbZ BCcxIPnrZK6dCT2MftOB9bTbG35TsSW1shtZxCbq6+x/Z111h29u/d5hrK/puh9m aC4tdYc+uT2C6JwttrQMB71tkGTwqDu2i3gPUWQVwkG9XOQ1eoZ7DNbJwITzmSgl pmfJlUNL9lLluGftdNDYd6dRIS1n+V2r4V+RzdLi/Va46r/O4ejLXsJ9Qjy4Pu3w BgzD9HPDfUE06HKciFbAYKfY1hrlYfYDRPhZR8CtPHxhmY/luX8Go022Lbk/mAzP /ZQHzc0KsxS43igHEP/JrJf/SgWAXQzIonznoRql44kIqKVNTsfj6gNf5ORD5PR9 LNcbPLRokrkrfyNMjsZ8gmZpYyYrZYvA7TvzLIeGpcwH+lSqQTaQpozC+naoJmWn +tMGzAKOHb/cx4pWrmhkWQcF+IVUMTM0ScpXBGmWs8jeF5b+5NEZvkz+j8VHjOBC U5r8tsBTY7/ve9obiAPvPG5273Vubrf8V0/WkbxhE8d14eqfbeYGHzt2V0QaZfpz Z/T03zkAH5bjodXUOHHb6NkCH6gsDMz7204etEmoeDor+7t/fBwfNFpcrGvFK4/5 E3TTPLBAy8nHN/n2vOsf =PRw3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53adcb87.5080...@fastmail.fm
