Re: Mailing list and Gcc header in nnimap groups

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@northernlight.com> wrote:
> What about comparing Message-ID headers of incoming messages to
> existing messages, similar to the way nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent
> works?

Do you mean duplicate suppression?  (See the manual node of that
name.)

> I don't mind duplicate messages so much if they end up in the
> same folder, but I don't want to have to set up mailing lists for
> everything.  Especially since I don't necessarily group messages by
> mailing list.  For instance, my "ding" folder contains messages
> forwarded from the newsgroup, mailing list messages, and personal
> discussions about bugs.  So for me, the "mailing list == folder"
> assumption doesn't work too well.

Well, Kai's previous suggestion of using the MFT stuff should work
then.  Have a hook function called during sending that checks for
subscribed list addresses in To+Cc, and set Gcc accordingly.  Is there
any send-time hook that gets called before Gcc is processed?

Maybe the checking of addresses could be done only once, and then a
buffer-local variable could be set to record the result.

For Gcc, it'd be nice to also check Bcc for subscribed addresses.  But
MFT should not look at Bcc.  So maybe they shouldn't be combined much
after all.


paul