Re: Nuking mailing list subject tags (how-to)

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@sina.hpc.uh.edu>]

>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

SLB> Ever been on a mailing list where the list owner thinks its a Great
SLB> Idea to put the mailing list name in the Subject: line?

I do that on every list that I run.  It's a great help for those who don't
have such great software as Gnus and Procmail, and if you have such cool
software then getting rid of the tags is trivial.  They're a big help if
you don't have the software and they can go away if you do have it.  Why is
that so annoying?

SLB> Here's a demonstration function that attaches to
SLB> nnml-prepare-save-mail-hook to illustrate how to nuke those annoying,
SLB> obnoxious and ugly tags out of existence.  Permanently.

For Procmail users, I use the following in a recipe:

        :0 h
        SUBJECT=| formail -xSubject: | sed 's/TAG: //'

        :0 fhw
        |formail -i "Subject:" -a "Subject:$SUBJECT"

Procmail gurus will probably find subtle weird locking errors, but it's
always worked for me.

 - J<