[Dovecot] Mailing list's prefix

Joseph Yee joseph.yee at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 22:51:13 EET 2010


If prefix is not prefer by some, but many others still want to see the
tag in subject line, what about suffix?  Can it be done?

just a thought
Joseph

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, James Butler
<jbutler at uniteddefensegroup.com> wrote:
> Eric Rostetter wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
>>
>>> Do you think I'd break a lot of people's filters if I removed the
>>> prefix? :) Anyone strongly for/against removing it? It seems kind of
>>> annoying to me whenever I happen to think about it.
>
> It wouldn't break any of my filters.
>
> Personally, I like it when a mailing list uses the [LISTNAME] prefix. I get
> thousands of messages per day and a bunch of list messages, and even after
> filtering, having that type of prefix makes it visually easier for me to get
> a handle on what's important and what is not. When such a prefix is missing,
> the message subjects when there are many messages are actually more
> difficult to visually process, for me, even when all of the messages within
> a directory are from the same list.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> James Butler
> IT Director
> United Defense Group, LLP
>
>


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