Sieve by the addressee

[Markus Schönhaber]

20.02.21, 15:44 +0100, ml at shadrinden.ru:

> I have a sieve that is supposed to put all messages addressed to this mailing list into a separate folder:
> 
> if anyof (address :is "to" "ml at shadrinden.ru",
>           address :is "to" "dovecot at dovecot.org") {
>   fileinto "mail_list";
>   stop;
> }
> 
> Generally, it's working, but today I have got two mailing list messages that weren't put in that folder, they arrived straight into INBOX. I suppose that was because they were replies and were addressed to the person who asked the questions, so they had his address in "To:", and only in "Cc:" they had dovecot at dovecot.org.
> 
> So, am I right that, when filtering messages by the addressee, it's generally a good idea to use not just "to", but ["to", "cc', "bcc"] ?

I consider it a better idea to filter mailing list messages by their
List-ID header.

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Regards
  mks