On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:10:35PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:46 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > 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. > > And how does Mutt know which addresses are mailing lists? > You tell it, that's what I meant by 'configuration options'. Hardly rocket science! :-)
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