Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Wed Apr 25 20:05:24 UTC 2007


On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:53:40PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Amarendra Godbole wrote:
> 
> >I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to
> >visually detect which email was sent to which fbsd list. Is it
> >possible to add a tag in the subject line, something like, [fbsd-q],
> >or [fbsd-questions], or similar so that emails can be visually
> >classified?
> >
> >Given that these lists have been around for a long time, was there a
> >discussion on this? If the idea of tagging was dropped, can someone
> >inform me about the rationale behind this decision? Thanks in advance!
> 
> All messages are already tagged with a List-ID
> 
> e.g.
> 
> List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
> 
> Can gmail not filter on that?

Do you have any suggestions for how to do something similar with mutt or
procmail?

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