On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 10:53:52AM -0600, brd thus spoke:
> Hi all. I've just switched to mutt a few days ago, after using elm
> for the past 6 or 7 years. So far, it's easy to pick up, and I'm
> liking it. One question I do have, though, is what should the lists
> command actually do?
>
> In my muttrc I have the line:
> lists mutt (I also tried mutt-users)
>
> but messages to this list are still coming to my inbox. I have a
> couple of other lists that I am filtering out to separate folders
> using procmail, and that is working okay, and I could continue to
> set this up for all my lists, I was just curious to see what mutt
> would do with lists. Should it put them in their own folder
> =mutt-users, which is how I have procmail doing other lists?
You're missing the point of the lists command...no problem, I'll explain.
'lists' is not a replacement for procmail or any other filtering program.
Mutt possesses no such creature, and never will. You'll need to continue
to use procmail for that.
What 'lists' does is take any of the expressions you put in it (ie,
lists mutt-users) and when you're reading mail that was sent to one of the
defined lists, you can hit "L" and it replies ONLY to the list it finds
matched in the lists directive lines you set up...rather than the Reply-To
or the From... It also apparently does some checking against Reply-To
to try and help it determine if it matches one of your lists.
At any rate, that's what it's for, so you don't have to Reply, and then CC
the list, generating duplicates, etc.
Hope that helps.
mark->
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