Re: OT: Outlook filtering for Cygwin list (WAS: RE: Questions about C ygwin's setup...)

["Paul Garceau" <pgarceau at teleport dot com>]

Hi folks,

On 26 Jan 2001, at 0:06, the Illustrious Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:57:56PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
> >On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Mike Enright wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think it can be done with one filter. I have 6. The
> >> mailbox@host varies 3 ways. cygwin@sources.redhat.com,
> >> cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com. Another variation is
> >> that some send their messages to the previous poster, and CC the
> >> list. I have one rule that catches 95% of the messages. But I have to
> >> apply the others to get the rest of the messages. Plus, some messages
> >> seem to get caught by my redhat filter first.
> >> 
> >> This list is the only one that is so messed up. I was able to use
> >> Outlook Express on every other list I was on.
> >
> >Any filter that can't filter on something as simple as "Sender" header
> >is broken. All cygwin list messages have the following in the header:
> >
> >  Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com 
> >
> >Pretty trivial. Please consult the documentation of your mail client or
> >filter. Of course, if someone were to send you a "courtesy" copy as
> >well, then you'll get two copies, one filtered and one not since it
> >came from the sender directly. There are various somart filters that
> >will do the right thing with the right ruleset. 
> >
> >I hope this doesn't start a whole new off-topic thread, and if it does,
> >I apologize in advance.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying this (this is the monthly clarification, I guess).
> I also hope that this does not result in a flurry of "I do it this way!"
> messages.

	My hope is that if someone wants to do that, that they will reply 
directly to the poster and not clutter the mailing list with such 
things.

	Peace,

		Paul G.


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    Nothing unreal exists.

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