Re: repairing the From: headers of sed-users ...

"Cameron Simpson [email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]>
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On 03Jan2015 21:22, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>I also find the way yahoo groups works (or not) confusing, and have seen messages misrouted. I don't use mutt, so the script you created does not help me.

The script isn't specific to mutt, but it does rely on being able to plug into 
your mail reception process. A lot of mutt users use getmail or fetchmail and 
then file using a tool like procmail, which will let you feed a message or its 
headers through a script. Hence the script.

If the Thunderbird people ever bit the bullet and added Maildir support you 
could achieve this separation of process: collect and deliver to folders with a 
separate, pluggable, process or your choice. And read mail out of the Maildirs 
using Thunderbird (or whatever your preferred mail reader may be).

Because Thunderbird elieves it is the sole user of your mail folders you're 
kind of stuck with using its mail fetching and therefore its mail filing 
system.

>Instead, I do two things:
> 1) If thunderbird, I double-check where the post is going.

How do you ascertain this?

> 2) If yahoo groups interface, I click on double-down arrow to "expand header".

Hmm. Does that show you the source author?

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
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