Re: [Evolution] REQ: better "Message location" condition in serach folders

[Volker Wysk <post volker-wysk de>]

Am Sonntag, den 05.07.2020, 22:38 +0100 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 02:25 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > In order for this to work, the "To"-address needs to be regarded.
> > Some
> >
> > "Sent to mailing list" condition would be needed (with ".*" or such
> > for
> >
> > ANY list). This might be possible, since Evolution *does* have a
> > notion
> >
> > of mailing lists and mailing list addresses.
>
> AFAIK this only happens when Evo sees a message with the List-*
> headers
> which many (but not all) lists add to distributed messages. These
> headers will not be there on new messages you send to a list (i.e. on
> your copy of the sent message), only to correctly-formatted replies
> (meaning those which were sent using Reply-To-List and not for
> example
> Reply-To-All).

Yes, that's the problem here.

> > In the "Message" menu,
> >
> > there is an item "mailing list", which appears to be connected with
> >
> > mailing list folders.
>
> It has nothing to do with mailing list folders. Although many people
> filter mailing list messages into folders for convenience, Evo
> doesn't
> treat these folders as in any way special (though I've often thought
> that would be a nice feature to have). That menu item is enabled when
> you're looking at a message with the List-* headers, that's all.

I see. So, evo would need to keep a register of the mailing list names
(List-to or similar header) and the corresponding email addresses, for
all messages it sees. Of course I'm not requesting this.


Goodbye,
Volker