On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:51:20AM -0800, Eugene Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:37:25AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> :
> : Is there a simple way to change the subject line of an incoming
> : message before saving it?
> :
> : It would be particularly useful to do this when saving the messages
> : one gets when subscribing to mailing lists. I keep these in a single
> : mailbox and because of the inconsistency of the subject lines used
> : it's often quite hard to find the subscription details for a
> : particular list. If I could just change the subject line before
> : saving the message I could make my life much easier.
>
> For mailing lists, I usually add the mailing list address to my
> "subscribe" line and let 's' automatically save messages to a file
> usually named after the mailing list.
>
That doesn't really address my problem I don't think.
I already have procmail set up to filter all my mailing list mail
each to its own mailbox, that's not the problem.
When I subscribe to a new mailing list I save the response(s) from
the mailing list server into a mailbox called 'subscriptions' or some
such. Then when I want to leave the list (or tell someone else how
to subscribe/unsubscribe) I can go and look in my 'subscriptions'
mail box to see how to do it.
The problem is that the subject lines from the various different
mailing list servers aren't consistent and many don't even have the
name of the mailing list in them. Thus it isn't always easy looking
at the index of my 'subscriptions' mailbox to see which message is
the one I want.
Even doing what you suggest won't help as 's' will save the message
to a mailbox named after the From: line of the message from the
mailing list server which I suspect will be just as inconsistent as
the subject line is and won't always provide the mailing list name
either.
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