Re: [Octave] suggestion?

[Shai Ayal]

Maybe you could use procmail to add the [Octave], not move to a -- I do 
not know much about procmail, but from a quick look at the man page, you 
could invoke a shell command on the email matching a certain criteria 
e.g run the following
## untested
sed /Subject:/Subject: [Octave]/
## untested
on all the files with octave in their To: or CC:

        Hope this helps in some way

        Shai

Hugo Coolens wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
>
> > How about looking for octave in the To: and  CC: fields instead -- I 
>
> "To:" is most often of no use as this is the personal address of the
> e-mail poster, what's more: some e-mail clients (like pine) don't show
> those fields when you look at the index of the inbox, you first have to
> select the message to see those fields ...  
>
> > should think any email client can do this,
>
> I could indeed fiddle with procmail or so but that would move the mails
> automatically in the octave-folder, whereas I prefer to see them first in
> my inbox to see if there something of immediate interesest, then I select
> them and put them in the octave folder
>
> > and it would not entail any 
> > changes to the list. 
> > The list works, why fix it ?
>
> I don't think such a minor change would break it
>
> b.t.w. I saw this system used in the LTspice mailing list and found it a
> good idea, but of course you don't have to agree and it's not that
> important anyway
>
> Hugo
>
>
>
> >         Shai
> >
> > p.s. I use the above filter with 100% success, ant it catches all octave 
> > mailing lists
> >
> >
> > Hugo Coolens wrote:
> >
> > > I find this octave-list extremely usefull. May I suggest the
> > > following as an improvement:
> > > Wouldn't it be possible to have the word [Octave] always in the
> > > subject-line, this would make it quite easy to select all your
> > > octave-related messages at once.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Hugo
> > >
> > >
> > >
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