is it possible to auto-detect mailing list?

[Yubin Ruan]

Most mailing lists emails have several sepecial headers, for example,
"Mailing-List" and "X-Mailing-List". Is it possible to mark those emails as
subscribed (as if we have used `subscribe ***@address.org' in .muttrc), such
that there is a 'L' flag showing up in the index?

Yubin

[Cameron Simpson]

Post by Yubin Ruan
Most mailing lists emails have several sepecial headers, for example,
"Mailing-List" and "X-Mailing-List". Is it possible to mark those emails as
that there is a 'L' flag showing up in the index?

If you fetch mail through a mail filing program such as procmail you could
recognise these as they come in and add new lists to your muttrc as they are
seen.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <***@cskk.id.au>

[Tom Furie]

Post by Yubin Ruan
Most mailing lists emails have several sepecial headers, for example,
"Mailing-List" and "X-Mailing-List". Is it possible to mark those emails as
that there is a 'L' flag showing up in the index?

I'd say it seems possible. My immediate first thoughts (without much
effort) would be to search for the relevant headers. If found, check
against a "subscribed" file. If the mailing list doesn't already have
an entry, add it.

Perhaps procmail and sed would be useful for the purpose.

The subscription file could be sourced by .muttrc. Of course, changes
won't be reflected until mutt is restarted.

Cheers,
Tom

[Patrick Shanahan]

Post by Tom Furie

Post by Yubin Ruan
Most mailing lists emails have several sepecial headers, for example,
"Mailing-List" and "X-Mailing-List". Is it possible to mark those emails as
that there is a 'L' flag showing up in the index?

I'd say it seems possible. My immediate first thoughts (without much
effort) would be to search for the relevant headers. If found, check
against a "subscribed" file. If the mailing list doesn't already have
an entry, add it.
Perhaps procmail and sed would be useful for the purpose.
The subscription file could be sourced by .muttrc. Of course, changes
won't be reflected until mutt is restarted.

no, simply, :source <file>
will do it.

[Tom Furie]

Post by Tom Furie
The subscription file could be sourced by .muttrc. Of course, changes
won't be reflected until mutt is restarted.

no, simply, :source <file> will do it.

Okay, thank you. Of course that's also an option :)

Cheers,
Tom

[Francesco Ariis]

Post by Yubin Ruan
Most mailing lists emails have several sepecial headers, for example,
"Mailing-List" and "X-Mailing-List". Is it possible to mark those emails as
that there is a 'L' flag showing up in the index?

Hello Yubin,
not a real answer unfortunately, but I guess the main reason this has
not been implemented is because there are two commands in mutt,
`subscribe` and plain `lists`, and deciding which-is-which cannot be
done by simply checking the headers
-F