On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:35:47 +0200 Daniel Roesen <dr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:16:30AM -0700, robert holtzman wrote: > > > rh> :0: > > > rh> * ^TO_fedora-users@xxxxxxxxx > > > rh> $HOME/mail/list-fedora > > > > > > Yeah, but that breaks for cross-posting: what happens when > > > people post to both fedora-users-list and > > > fedora-testers-list say. Which folder do you save to? > > > > Crossposting works just fine. Notice that the recipe says > > "fedora-users", not "fedora-testers". To catch both you would have > > to add another recipe for fedora-testers-list. As a matter of fact, > > I lurk on openoffice-users and openoffice-discuss and have separate > > recipes for each. Works fine. > > And where does a mail (which you get two times!) crossposted to both > openoffice mailinglists end up? > > Answer: both copies go into the folder for which you have the procmail > rule first. > > This is why filtering on TO is fundamentally broken. > > Use List-ID for what it's there. If a message is cross-posted to two lists I subscribe to, I have no wish to read it twice anyway. Filtering on 'TO' puts 1 copy in the first matching folder, and subsequent copies are thrown away by the first recipe: #keep a msgid cache to weed out duplicates :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 /home/cro/.msgid.cache That's not to say List-ID isn't better, but as someone pointed out not all mailing list software has it. Regards, Chris
