python list name in subject

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Aug 22 21:51:32 EDT 2017


Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python at gmail.com> writes:

> i am subscribed to different python lists and they put their names in the
> subject
> [name] subject

That's non-standard. The standard place for that information is the
“List-Id” field <URL:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2919>.

> hence i can at a glance tell which mail belongs to which list.

Set up a filter on the specific value of the “List-Id” field, which is
set by any standards-conformant mailing list software.

Presto, you get any organisation you like based on that information; and
the rest of us don't get the Subject field cluttered.

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