RE: Format of these messages

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I don't know what Outlook can or can't do.   I use procmail to
sort my messages, and I use 'List-Id', which works flawlessly in every
situation that I've encountered.

But, like all Microsoft products, you have to use Outlook.  Doesn't matter
if it's the most likely program on the planet to give you a virus.
Doesn't matter if it's known to have huge, gaping, security flaws.
Doesn't matter if it can only deal with some E-mail headers and not all of
them.   Or if it isn't fully RFC compliant.

It's Microsoft -- it doesn't matter how bad it is -- everything else is
'Legacy', so you have to use the Microsoft program.


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Dan Bale wrote:

> Unless I have missed the obvious (very possible today), there is no way to
> set up filters in Outlook 2000 to select on List-Post: or List-ID:.
>
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:26 PM
> To: Midrange Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Format of these messages
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> The "To:" header is not really suited to what you're trying to do.   What
> if I wrote a message, for example, to you and sent a CC: to the list?  the
> "To:" header would have your name, and the CC: would have the list...
> I'm sure there are other examples, too... where the To: header does not
> match.
>
> In the message headers there are some mailing-list  specific headers which
> work beautifully for splitting the messages into folders.  For example,
> in the message you wrote (that I'm now replying to) it looks like this:
>
> List-Help: <mailto:midrange-l-request@midrange.com?subject=help>
> List-Post: <mailto:midrange-l@midrange.com>
> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l>,
>         <mailto:midrange-l-request@midrange.com?subject=subscribe>
> List-Id: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l.midrange.com>
> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l>,
>         <mailto:midrange-l-request@midrange.com?subject=unsubscribe>
> List-Archive: <http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/>
>
> Using the "List-Id:" header to split out the messages will probably
> give you something a bit more reliable than the "To:" header does.
>