Mailing list procmail recipe

[Daniel Roesen]

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