[Rails] Rubyonrails email list: From

Scott Barron scott at elitists.net
Sat Oct 16 23:34:11 GMT 2004


On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:25:40PM -0400, Scott Barron wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 12:51:09PM +0000, jim at freeze.org wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Is is possible to configure this list so that the rubyonrails
> > emails are seen as being sent From rails at lists.rubyonrails.org?
> > 
> > Currently rubyonrails.org is in the reply-to category, but my
> > procmail filters don't catch this, so all the rails emails
> > get captured as junk.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jim Freeze
> 
> No, mucking with the From is not a good idea.  The mails are sent To the
> rails list and you should set your procmail rules to filter on the TO
> stuff to catch rails mail.  E.g.:
> 
> :0:
> * ^TOrails at lists.rubyonrails.org
> .rails/

As Marcel pointed out to me, you'd probably want ^TO_ there as,
according to the man page, ^TO_ is for specific _addresses_ and ^TO is
for specific _words_.  Though I seem to use TO on everything and manage
to filter my mail OK.  It must be magic :)

-Scott


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