Tim via users: (about CCing yourself in list mail)
> Some people do that so they know when there's a message to them on the
> list, if they're not a full-time participant on the list. Some mail
> clients used to highlight messages to the recipient in their mail
> folder, making them very obvious. My old one, back in the Amiga days,
> did, but this one doesn't. I may play around and so something to set
> that up.
Just spent quite some time playing around trying to get my mail client
to highlight my messages on a list (to, from, or cc), and that was much
harder than I anticipated.
Firstly because my name/address may appear in three different places
(to, cc, & from addresses), and it may just be my name without my
address. This was a lot easier before poster's address munging became
a thing.
So I have to decide whether to just test for my name, and also end up
highlighting other people with the same name (I can manually un-
highlight them, it's not too common a name). Or to test just for my
address, and end up not highlighting some mail to me.
Secondly, my filtering is done by dovecot.sieve rather than in the mail
client. Because I use several different mail clients on this LAN, and
don't want to have to configure them individually, or have them
fighting with each other, I use centralised filtering at the local IMAP
server.
Whacking this clause into my sieve script *before* it does the mail
sorting into different folders, may just do the trick:
##### highlight my list messages
if exists "List-ID" {
if anyof
(
address :contains ["to", "cc", "from"] "Tim"
)
{
addflag "$label1";
}
}
And that wasn't easy to figure out, either. The sieve documentation is
quite obtuse. The concept is simple enough (if there is a list-id
header, and my address is somewhere), but discovering the syntax rules
was a pain. I tried to make a universal highlight rule for *any* list
I'm on, rather than repeat it for every list, and not have it do
anything with direct mail.
--
uname -rsvp
Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64
(yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted)
Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.
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