[Xfce] another thought about the list

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Auke Kok wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> from among
>>>
>>>
>>>> the hundreds of garbage messages I receive. Some other lists do this,
>>>> but I don't know
>>>> how.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>

For maildir you can .procmailrc:


MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir/
XFCE_DIR=$MAILDIR/Xfce/xfce/

:0
* ^(To|TO|Cc|CC):.*xfce at xfce.org
$XFCE_DIR