Re: [Octave] suggestion?

[robert Macy]

Adding [Octave] to the subject line does not activate the
sort on my system.  That part of the subject line is
ignored along with the Re: part.

               - Robert -

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:01:15 +0200
 Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
> Maybe you could use procmail to add the [Octave], not
> move to a -- I do not know much about procmail, but from
> a quick look at the man page, you could invoke a shell
> command on the email matching a certain criteria e.g run
> the following
> ## untested
> sed /Subject:/Subject: [Octave]/
> ## untested
> on all the files with octave in their To: or CC:
> 
>       Hope this helps in some way
> 
>       Shai
> 
> Hugo Coolens wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Shai Ayal wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>How about looking for octave in the To: and  CC: fields
> instead -- I 
> > "To:" is most often of no use as this is the personal
> address of the
> > e-mail poster, what's more: some e-mail clients (like
> pine) don't show
> > those fields when you look at the index of the inbox,
> you first have to
> > select the message to see those fields ...  
> > 
> >>should think any email client can do this,
> > 
> > I could indeed fiddle with procmail or so but that
> would move the mails
> > automatically in the octave-folder, whereas I prefer to
> see them first in
> > my inbox to see if there something of immediate
> interesest, then I select
> > them and put them in the octave folder
> > 
> >>and it would not entail any 
> >>changes to the list. The list works, why fix it ?
> > 
> > I don't think such a minor change would break it
> > 
> > b.t.w. I saw this system used in the LTspice mailing
> list and found it a
> > good idea, but of course you don't have to agree and
> it's not that
> > important anyway
> > 
> > Hugo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>    Shai
> >>
> >>p.s. I use the above filter with 100% success, ant it
> catches all octave mailing lists
> >>
> >>
> >>Hugo Coolens wrote:
> >>
> >>>I find this octave-list extremely usefull. May I
> suggest the
> >>>following as an improvement:
> >>>Wouldn't it be possible to have the word [Octave]
> always in the
> >>>subject-line, this would make it quite easy to select
> all your
> >>>octave-related messages at once.
> >>>
> >>>regards,
> >>>Hugo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
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