From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 7 12:50:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A8A37B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7842A43E77 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:50:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g87Jo8Uc001970; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:50:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g87Jo2X9001969; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:50:02 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:50:02 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Kirk Bailey Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: subject prepending Message-ID: <20020907195002.GA1680@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <3D7A5359.4641B60B@netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D7A5359.4641B60B@netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:28:25PM -0400, Kirk Bailey wrote: > most lists prepend the listname in [square brackets]. This is a > material help for filtering messages into the correct folder. Could > the list owner please turn on this feature to facilitate filtering > for us out here is subscriberland? The suggested mechanism for achieving what you want is described in RFC2919 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2919.txt). It's still only "Standards Track", not yet "Best Practice", but none the less most mailing lists have adopted the recommendations --- in my experience rather more lists than modify the subject line as you suggest. In short, the mechanism is to add a new header "List-ID:" to messages delivered to mailing lists. If you examine the headers of any messages posted to this list you will see that it (and indeed all mailing lists @FreeBSD.ORG) already comply: List-ID: Most MUAs can detect this header and use it to filter messages into Mailboxes. This procmail snippet is what I use for my own account: # FreeBSD Questions :0: * ^List-ID: | ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Folder: FreeBSD/Questions" >> FreeBSD/Questions Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message