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| DATE | 2015-02-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Matching this mailing list for procmail rules
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On 02/16/2015 11:29 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> I noticed that postings to this mailing list kept landing in my personal
> mbox rather than in ~/inboxes/lists, the way mailing lists ought to, on
> my system. 'WTF?', I thought. 'Why aren't my procmail rules catching
> the X-BeenThere or X-Loop or X-Mailing-List/Mailing-List headers?'
>
> And then I remembered: Right, Ruben's still using procmail, which
> completely fails to implement mailing list headers required by RFCs
> after 2000 because it's been unmaintained proprietary code since about
> 2000.
you mean majordomo. Procmail is it's own problem. I think I can add
mail headers if you point me to the RFC
meanwhile, back to reading abut the mach kernel, layered kernels, and
iOS in chapter two of my OS class.
Then I have some coding for the algorithms class (memoization of
recursive algorithms)
then I need to decode Blackboard and then I will sulk in depression over
the state of the world...
and then get about 20 minutes of sleep.
>
> I've just appended a new special-case match to catch Hangout, as shown
> below. (Notice that we have to look for owner-hangout-at-brklyn.com, even
> though this is the hangout-at-nylxs.com mailing list, because the two
> domains are still muddled together.)
>
> I hope the recipe is useful to others.
>
> Quoting from .procmailrc:
>
>
> ------
>
> ### LIST CATCHALLS
>
> :0
> * ^X-BeenThere:*
> $HOME/inboxes/lists
>
> :0
> * ^X-Loop:*
> $HOME/inboxes/lists
>
> :0
> * ^X-Mailing-List:*
> $HOME/inboxes/lists
>
> :0
> * ^Mailing-List:*
> $HOME/inboxes/lists
>
>
> ### LISTS THAT NEED SPECIAL PATTERNS
>
> :0
> * ^Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
> $HOME/inboxes/lists
>
> ------
>
> Above is not a particularly good ruleset, just good enough to suffice on
> mailing lists received here. These are said to be better:
>
> http://www.professional.org/procmail/listname_id.rc
>
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