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

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Wed Apr 25 21:15:02 UTC 2007


On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:03:05PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 14:47:30 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:30:42PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote:
> > > 
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-procmail.html
> > 
> > I wasn't referring to a desire for instructions on how to use procmail.
> 
> Sorry, but that is what I thought you were after.
> 
> > I was hoping for some suggestion as to what to set up.  It's usually
> > not really polite to change subject lines on a mailing list, so using
> > procmail to add [fbsdq] (or whatever) to the beginning of every subject
> > line doesn't really strike me as a good solution to the problem.
> 
> Now I am totally confused.  What exactly do you want?
> 
> (If you want to add or remove something from the subject line during
> local mail delivery use formail.)

I'm looking for an easy way to visually mark messages as being from the
freebsd-questions list so I can recognize them at a glance without
screwing with the subject line if I reply.

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
"Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts." - Paul Graham


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