How to filter the emails from this list

[Jeremy Faulkner]

Lots of procmail recipes, unfortunately the OP is looking for help
with his gmail filters. I use the "Has the words" field with text like
"freebsd-questions.freebsd.org" trying to match the List-Id contents.
Unfortunately this does not yeild ideal results for me as the '-' and
'.' are not taken literally and the search matches a lot of items
within the message. This results in a lot of cross-mailing list
Labels.

I really hope Google improves their filtering system. I miss procmail.

On 2/15/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2006-02-15 14:20, "Daniel A." <ldrada at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Every once in a while, some guy sends an email to the
> > FreeBSD-questions mailing list using BCC, which makes the email pass
> > my filters, and head straight to my inbox.
> > I have set up a filter which checks the email address(es) the email was sent to.
> > So far, it looks like this:
> > ____
> > Matches: to:(freebsd-questions at freebsd.org OR questions at freebsd.org OR
> > freebsd-questions at www.freebsd.org)
> > Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "FreeBSD-Questions"
> > ____
> > Yes, FYI, some people actually write "freebsd-questions at www.freebsd.org"
> >
> > But how do I make sure that _every_ email to the gets filtered?
>
> Use a better match rule.  You are filtering on the wrong criteria,
> namely the "to" headers.  Using the standard "Sender:" header that the
> mailing list software adds, you can write something similar to the
> following procmail filter:
>
>     :0 H
>     * ^Sender: owner[^@]*@freebsd.org
>     {
>         :0 H
>         * ^Sender: owner-doc-committers at freebsd.org
>         freebsd.cvs.doc/
>
> +       :0 H
> +       * ^Sender: owner-cvs-\/[^@]*
> +       freebsd.cvs.$MATCH/
>
>         :0 H
>         * ^Sender: owner-freebsd-\/[^@]*
>         freebsd.$MATCH/
>
>         :0 H
>         freebsd.misc/
>     }
>
> The most important lines are marked with '+'.  These match any message
> sent by the mailing list software of FreeBSD.org, regardless of what the
> user has put in their recipient list.
>
> > I've noticed that all emails sent to the FreeBSD mailing lists get
> > suffixed with some text. Can I trust that this text wont change every
> > few weeks or so?
>
> No.  But you can trust the "Sender:" header.
>
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Jeremy Faulkner