On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:13:27AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:22 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:15:20AM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > You mean like you tell the Evo filter to look for a ListId header? > > > > > > > > > What you tell mutt is that a certain address (in To:, From:, Cc: etc.) > > > > is a mailing list address, the specification is a regular expression > > > > with which you can specify as much as is needed to remove ambiguity. > > > > > > > > > > So you are criticising Evo for using information in the message to > > > automagically find out something that you have to manually tell Mutt > > > about? > > > > > When we came in it appeared that one couldn't tell Evolution manually > > about mailing lists. All I was saying was that it's easy to tell mutt > > about mailing lists, if one can't do the same (i.e. tell the MUA > > manually) with Evolution it seems to be a bit of an omission. > > Evo allows you to filter on mailing-list headers where they exist. It > also enables a bunch of list-specific actions such as Message->Reply To > List (Ctrl-L) plus those under under Message->Mailing Lists (subscribe, > get archives, contact the owner, post etc.), all of which only make > sense in the presence of mailing-list headers. What else do you want it > to do? > Surely it would make sense to allow filtering on an address one specifies oneself - for those (many) mailing lists which which don't have 'proper' mailing list headers. In mutt I simply tell it which mailing lists I'm subscribed to (as a list of regular expressions matching the mailing list From:/Cc:/To: address) and then I get all the special mailing list commands (like Evolution's Ctrl-L) enabled for all those mailing lists whether or not they have 'proper' headers.
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