Re: [Evolution] message filters not working

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:13:27AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:22 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:15:20AM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > So you are criticising Evo for using information in the message to
> > > automagically find out something that you have to manually tell Mutt
> > > about?
> > When we came in it appeared that one couldn't tell Evolution manually
> > about mailing lists.  All I was saying was that it's easy to tell mutt
> > about mailing lists, if one can't do the same (i.e. tell the MUA
> > manually) with Evolution it seems to be a bit of an omission.
>
> Evo allows you to filter on mailing-list headers where they exist. It
> also enables a bunch of list-specific actions such as Message->Reply To
> List (Ctrl-L) plus those under under Message->Mailing Lists (subscribe,
> get archives, contact the owner, post etc.), all of which only make
> sense in the presence of mailing-list headers. What else do you want it
> to do?
Surely it would make sense to allow filtering on an address one
specifies oneself - for those (many) mailing lists which which don't
have 'proper' mailing list headers.  In mutt I simply tell it which
mailing lists I'm subscribed to (as a list of regular expressions
matching the mailing list From:/Cc:/To: address) and then I get all
the special mailing list commands (like Evolution's Ctrl-L) enabled
for all those mailing lists whether or not they have 'proper' headers.

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Chris Green