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bug#20822: environment mangled by locale
From: |
John Darrington |
Subject: |
bug#20822: environment mangled by locale |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:50:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:03:48PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> Can we configure this mailing list better?
>
> Many (all?) of the messages posted have no obvious indication of which
> mailing list they are coming from.
>
> The subject line is something like "bug#12345: description"
> The To: field is address@hidden
>
> In general, it takes a lot of detective work to discover that message
> relates to guile.
>
No, it doesn't, there's a List-Id header in all messages sent out via
the list:
List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language"
<bug-guile.gnu.org>
OK Thanks. If that is invariant, then I'll set a rule accordingly.
Now that I know, I can do that.
Putting an
identifier into the subject just clutters the view for people who have
set up their email clients appropriatly for use with mailing list.
I don't agree. In fact, I set my email client for use with mailing lists.
That is why
I made the suggestion. I like to know if I'm receiving personally addressed
mail, or
mail via a list (without having to explicitly check the envelope and all
headers).
>From the email headers of your post, it seems you use mutt; I don't know
if mutt has built-in support for grouping based on List-Id (I'd guess
no), but you can use a tool (MDA) like "maildrop"[1], "scmail"[2] or
"procmail"[3]" to automatically put the email you receive via mailing
lists into different (e.g.) IMAP mailboxes.
I do know how to use my computer - I just didn't know what field this list
used to identify itself. But thanks for reminding me anyway.
> Can it not be configured to Prepend the Subject: line with Bug-Guile
> or something similar? That way it'd be easier to manage - either
> manually or automatically.
>
As mentioned above, this is not a good idea.
There are a lot of email conventions which are not good ideas. They are
nevertheless
ubiquitous, and refusing to conform to them is also not a good idea.
Anyway, I'll set a rule on the List-Id field as you suggested and hopefully
that'll
fix the problem.
Sorry for the noise.
J'
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