[Xfce] another thought about the list

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Thu Oct 13 23:44:07 CEST 2005


Don Christensen wrote:

>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>On 10/13/2005 2:10 PM, John Altstatt wrote:
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>>>Is it possible to prefix the subject line with "xfce" as I have done above
>>>automatically? This makes the list messages standout and easy to filter 
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>>>from among
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>>>the hundreds of garbage messages I receive. Some other lists do this, 
>>>but I don't know
>>>how.
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>>That kind of subject-line clutter tends to annoy me.  I'd suggest doing
>>"show full headers" or "view source" on this message.  There are several
>>headers at the top of the message that can be used to filter xfce
>>messages to specific folders, given a halfway-decent mail client.
>>
>>	-brian
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>I'm not aware of any client that can't filter on To: and CC:,
>which is generally sufficient to pick out mailing list traffic.
>I agree with Brian that adding the list name to the front of
>the subject is just annoying clutter.
>


this is quite easily done with procmail actually - although I owe you 
the recipe to do it.

Auke



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