On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:41:30AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:55 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > 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. > > If I understand you correctly, the idea is basically to tell Mutt what > the List-Post header is if it's not present in the messages. I guess > that could be somewhat useful, though it doesn't really help with the > other list-specific operations, e.g. I don't see how Mutt can deduce the > Subscribe/Unsubscribe address (or the Help address or the Archives URL) > automatically, or do you specify those as well? > No, mutt doesn't attempt to add Subscribe/Unsubscribe commands etc. Adding an address as a mailing-list means you can use the Reply to List command, messages are marked as being list messages (can be used as a search filter for example), messages sent to the list have a Mail-Followup-To: header added to them. I think there may be a few more things it does but these are the basics.
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