Mailing list procmail recipe
Daniel Roesen
dr at cluenet.de
Wed Apr 7 12:35:47 UTC 2004
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:16:30AM -0700, robert holtzman wrote:
> > rh> :0:
> > rh> * ^TO_fedora-users at fedora.us
> > rh> $HOME/mail/list-fedora
> >
> > Yeah, but that breaks for cross-posting: what happens when
> > people post to both fedora-users-list and
> > fedora-testers-list say. Which folder do you save to?
>
> Crossposting works just fine. Notice that the recipe says "fedora-users",
> not "fedora-testers". To catch both you would have to add another recipe
> for fedora-testers-list. As a matter of fact, I lurk on openoffice-users
> and openoffice-discuss and have separate recipes for each. Works fine.
And where does a mail (which you get two times!) crossposted to both
openoffice mailinglists end up?
Answer: both copies go into the folder for which you have the procmail
rule first.
This is why filtering on TO is fundamentally broken.
Use List-ID for what it's there.
Regards,
Daniel
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