-----Original Message----- From: Chris G <cl isbd net> To: evolution-list gnome org Subject: Re: [Evolution] message filters not working Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:32 +0000 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, thanks for the info, but the ubuntu lists are actually weell-behaved lists. I used the whole right-=click - create rule from - filter on mailing list for all the lists I am a part of, but the evolution list is the only one that works properly. I guess evolution likes its list the best :-) Love, Me
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