Re: A suggestion for kmail

On Thursday 18 December 2008, David Goodenough wrote:
> I have several email addresses, and which I use for subscription to
> mailing lists varies according to the subject matter.
>
> When I get the first mail from the mailing list, I set up a filter to
> put the mail into its own folder.  Then I use the Mailing List
> Manager to recognise which list it is, and to set up the relevant
> mail address.
>
> The one thing that this function does not do, which would be really
> useful, if to notice which of my email addresses the mail was sent to
> (and if you have the "normal" Fancy Headers displayed you can not see
> it), and set the appropriate entry in the folder properties as the
> default ID from which to send mail.  It strikes me that this would
> not be difficult to detect and it would be really useful and stop me
> sending mail to lists from the wrong id.

KMail uses the List-* headers defined in RFC 2369 [1] and RFC 2919 [2] 
for extracting the necessary information about the mailing list. I am 
not aware of a standard header providing the email address the message 
was sent to. Since the information about the actual recipient is part 
of the mail envelope that is removed by the receiving mail server 
before KMail sees the message, there's no reliable way to extract the 
address the message was sent to.

There seems to be a Delivered-to header, but I haven't found useful 
information about it.

If you have a suggestion how to determine the email address the message 
was sent to, I'd be interested to hear it.


Regards,
Ingo


[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html
[2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2919.html

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