Re: [Evolution] message filters not working

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:16:06PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 20:54 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:10:35PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:46 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:56:52PM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > > > > > The one I created for the evolution-list gnome org works fine, but the
> > > > > > > > ones I have created for my various ubuntu and security mailing lists
> > > > > > > > don't work.  I created all the rules the same.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Basically, filter on mailing list and I double-check the mailing-list
> > > > > > > > name/address. I then tell the filter to move the message to a folder on
> > > > > > > > my local system.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The easiest way is to right click on one of the mailing list messages,
> > > > > > > select "Create rule from message" -> "Filter based on mailing list".  If
> > > > > > > there is not the information in the mailing list messages to be able to
> > > > > > > filter, then that option won't be present.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > (The mailing list filtering requires certain headers to be present -
> > > > > > > it's not just based on the list mail address - the headers all start
> > > > > > > 'List-')
> > > > > > But *very many* mailing lists don't have those List headers.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sure, but that's not Evo's fault!  In that case you can't filter as a
> > > > > mailing list, you will have to filter on sender address.  The "Filter on
> > > > > Mailing List" *requires* those headers to be present - that's how Evo
> > > > > knows that it's a mailing list email, otherwise it looks like any other
> > > > > email to Evo.
> > > > In the 'real world' that's not very helpful to the user is it.
> > > >
> > > > For this very reason mutt (for example) has configuration options to
> > > > tell it what addresses are mailing lists so it doesn't rely on 'well
> > > > behaved' mailing lists.
> > >
> > > And how does Mutt know which addresses are mailing lists?
> > You tell it, that's what I meant by 'configuration options'.  Hardly
> > rocket science!  :-)
>
> You mean like you tell the Evo filter to look for a ListId header?
What you tell mutt is that a certain address (in To:, From:, Cc: etc.)
is a mailing list address, the specification is a regular expression
with which you can specify as much as is needed to remove ambiguity.

-- 
Chris Green