On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:56:52PM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > The one I created for the evolution-list@gnome.org works fine, but the > > > > ones I have created for my various ubuntu and security mailing lists > > > > don't work. I created all the rules the same. > > > > > > > > Basically, filter on mailing list and I double-check the mailing-list > > > > name/address. I then tell the filter to move the message to a folder on > > > > my local system. > > > > > > The easiest way is to right click on one of the mailing list messages, > > > select "Create rule from message" -> "Filter based on mailing list". If > > > there is not the information in the mailing list messages to be able to > > > filter, then that option won't be present. > > > > > > (The mailing list filtering requires certain headers to be present - > > > it's not just based on the list mail address - the headers all start > > > 'List-') > > > > > But *very many* mailing lists don't have those List headers. > > > > Sure, but that's not Evo's fault! In that case you can't filter as a > mailing list, you will have to filter on sender address. The "Filter on > Mailing List" *requires* those headers to be present - that's how Evo > knows that it's a mailing list email, otherwise it looks like any other > email to Evo. > In the 'real world' that's not very helpful to the user is it.
For this very reason mutt (for example) has configuration options to tell it what addresses are mailing lists so it doesn't rely on 'well behaved' mailing lists. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list