David DeSimone writes:
> These messages don't look the way you originally posted them. In fact,
> you made reference to the fact that your name appears in the From_
> envelope separator, but that is not the case on these messages.
I only took a small sampling of all the messages in question.
Rest assured that many of them do indeed have my name in the From_
envelope separator
> Mutt does *not* think that these messages are from you. Instead,
> it thinks that they are list-messages, which were not sent to any
> particular person, but instead were sent to a mailing list, of which
> you are a member. You told Mutt this using the "lists" command.
Correct. I wasn't under the impression that I instructed mutt to show
the full list name *instead* of the sender however. I don't want mutt
to do that because I already use procmail to add '[list]' prefixes to the
subject-lines of my list messages, and the prefix I use is typically
much shorter than the full name of the list that mutt would try to use
(cuz I want more room to see the subject-line ;-).
> Mutt's philosophy is that, in the case of a mailing list, you are not
> nearly as interested in the name of the particular person who sent the
> message.
Hmmn - in my case I am *extremely* interested in who it is from.
Depending on the list (which I'm also interested) it makes a huge
difference because I know there are certain posters on the list I wish
to summarily ignore most of the time, or that I usually want to read,
even if I wasn't following that particular thread. Of course I want to
know the list too, but I've been using procmail for that (and its changed
my life for the better ;-)
> You are instead more interested in which mailing list the
> message was directed to. Thus you can more easily determine, at a
> glance, your level of interest in the particular message.
[snip]
Wow - thats sounds completely different from my interpretation of reading
the manual. When I read it, it appeared to me like mutt would indicate
mailing lists to me _not_ by replacing the From-name with the List-name,
but instead by putting the List-*address* (the part that preceded the
'@') in to one side of the FLAGS field, in *addition* to the From-name.
The current behavior strikes me as very surprising - perhaps it should
be and may need to be more explicit in the docs? (so its clear that this
is done *instead-of* rather than *in-addition-to* when using the list
features). I also would have assumed from the manual that list-from
gives the list-address (before the '@') rather than the list name,
but they may be much less reasonable of me ;-)
Sure enough, changing the %L to a %F in my index_hdr variable does the
job quite nicely.
Many thanks!
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Brad Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/
"And miles to go before I sleep." -- Robert Frost
