Sieve by the addressee
Hi, everyone!
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@shadrinden.ru", address :is "to" "dovecot@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@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"] ?
-- Respectfully, Denis Shadrin
20.02.21, 15:44 +0100, ml@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@shadrinden.ru", address :is "to" "dovecot@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@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.
-- Regards mks
On 2/20/2021 8:50 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
I consider it a better idea to filter mailing list messages by their List-ID header.
I agree with Markus. It's what I do. This works well:
if header :regex "list-id" "solr-user.lucene.apache.org" { fileinto "asf.solr-user"; stop; }
I do not know if List-ID is common to all mailing list software, but even if it's not, there should be something available in the message headers that you can use.
Thanks, Shawn
Hi all!
On 20/02/2021 19:02, Shawn Heisey wrote:
On 2/20/2021 8:50 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
I consider it a better idea to filter mailing list messages by their List-ID header.
I agree with Markus. It's what I do. This works well:
if header :regex "list-id" "solr-user.lucene.apache.org"
I use :contains or :is ...
{ fileinto "asf.solr-user"; stop; }
I do not know if List-ID is common to all mailing list software, but
It should be - RFC2919 defines it and at least mailman set's it.
even if it's not, there should be something available in the message headers that you can use.
MfG, Bernd
Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at There is NO CLOUD, just other people's computers. - FSFE LUGA : http://www.luga.at
On 20/02/2021 18:02, Shawn Heisey wrote:
On 2/20/2021 8:50 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
I consider it a better idea to filter mailing list messages by their List-ID header.
I agree with Markus. It's what I do. This works well:
if header :regex "list-id" "solr-user.lucene.apache.org" { fileinto "asf.solr-user"; stop; }
I do not know if List-ID is common to all mailing list software, but even if it's not, there should be something available in the message headers that you can use.
It's not, but it's fairly common. A few years ago someone posted a strategy for procmail that handled almost any kind of mailinglist software. I've translated that to the following sieve script (which, now that I look at it, could probably do with a bit of optimisation):
# split out the various list forms
# Apparently, mutt-users has some odd format, so handle it specially.
if exists "list-post" {
if header :regex "list-post" "
Thanks, Shawn
On 20 Feb 2021, at 11:02, Shawn Heisey elyograg@elyograg.org wrote:
On 2/20/2021 8:50 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
I consider it a better idea to filter mailing list messages by their List-ID header.
I agree with Markus. It's what I do. This works well:
if header :regex "list-id" "solr-user.lucene.apache.org" { fileinto "asf.solr-user"; stop; }
if header :regex "list-id" "<([a-z_0-9-]+)[.@]" {
set :lower "listname" "${1}";
addheader "X-Listname" "${listname}";
fileinto :create "${listname}";
stop; }I do not know if List-ID is common to all mailing list software, but even if it's not, there should be something available in the message headers that you can use.
It is not universal, but it is nearly so. There are still some old lists running old software that do not support I, but they are few enough that I no longer have rules to catch those lists.
-- A bad day using a Mac is better than a good day using Windows
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