Re: Has anyone created code for reply to author on yahoogroups?

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>>>> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>:


>> Other than that, you could pipe the mails through a perl script that
>> fixes the headers. 

> That might be an idea... thanks for the heads up.  My yahoogroups'
> filtering already has subject tag stripping in them.
[snip!]
> I use dovecot with procmail(*) for mail filtering, so I would just put
> the fix in there.

Ok, now I've fixed the Yahoogroups.

I changed this:
 :0
 * ^TO_my-mailing-list@(intl.)?(e[Gg]roups|yahoogroups).com
 {
         :0 Afhw
         | /bin/sed -e "s/\[my-mailing-list\] //g"
 }

into this:
 :0
 * ^TO_my-mailing-list@(intl.)?(e[Gg]roups|yahoogroups).com
 {
         :0 Afhw
         | /usr/bin/perl -ne "s/(^From: \".+) \[my-mailing-list\]\" .*/\1\"/ig; s/(^From: \")'([^']+)'/\1\2/g;s/ ([A-za-z0-9.]+@[A-za-z0-9.]+)\"/\" <\1>/g;s/(^From: .*)\"([A-za-z0-9.]+@[A-za-z0-9.]+)\"/\1<\2>/g; if (/^Subject: /) {s/\[my-mailing-list\] //ig;} print"
 }

> (*) I know it's old, ancient actually, but it works and setting up mail
>     filtering is boring...

Speaking of ancient, my .procmailrc file also have this recipe, dating
back to the late ninties, but last touched in May of 2014, because of
the Android email client:
 #
 # Fix Subject RE/SV/AW line for MSExchange/MSMail/MSOutlook
 # Also fix Subject field for Norwegian android mailer ("Vedr").
 # No X-Mailer field to rely on, unfortunately!
 # Remove MSE quotes of type "'Real Name'"
 #
 :0 fhw
 | /usr/bin/perl -ne "s/\?[Ww]indows-1252\?/?iso-8859-1?/g; s/^(Subject:)\s+(S[Vv]:\s*|AW:\s*|Ad:\s*|Vedr:\s*|R[eE](\(\d+\))?:\s*)+/\1 Re: /g;s/^(Subject:)\s+(=\?((iso|ISO)-8859-1|us-ascii)\?Q\?)((S[Vv]|AW|Ad|R[eE](\(\d+\))?)(:|=3[Aa])_*)+/\1 \2Re:_/g; s/\042\'([^\']*)\'\042/\042\1\042/g ; print"

(The answer to the question "How many ways are there to break an email
header?", seems to be "inifinitly many"...)