Re: [Evolution] Expanding a digest with procmail and showing it as threaded

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:28, Mike Stilson wrote:
> I'm fairly new to using evolution (I've been a mutt fan until now) and
> have run into a little problem.  I subscribe to digest versions of
> several lists.  When I expand them (via procmail.. here's the script
> that expands them)
>
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*inux-kernel-.*digest
> |formail +1 -a "List-ID: lkml" -ds >> $DEFAULT
>
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*XFree86.*
> |formail +1 -a "List-ID: xfree" -ds >> $DEFAULT
>   
> :0:
> * ^List-ID:.*mysql.*mysql.com
> |formail +1 -a "List-ID: mysql" -ds >> $DEFAULT
>
> $DEFAULT is /var/spool/mail/mike
>
> I set up evolution to filter on the List-ID header, and put them in
> their own folder (I couldn't figure out how to get evo to break up the
> digest itself, if it can), and that works just fine.

Out of interest, why don't you just have procmail do the whole job and
put them in their own folders, or indeed have Evolution filter them on
its own?

Also, you'll get more reliable filtering if you filter on the sender
rather than other headers. Only the SMTP sender is 100% reliable -- my
Exim filter rule for lkml, for example, is:

if "$sender_address" matches "linux-kernel-owner * vger kernel org" then
        save Maildir/.lists.l-k/
        finish
endif

Other filters will have both false positives and false negatives under
some circumstances. 

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dwmw2