List subject prefix?

David Lang david at lang.hm
Wed May 4 22:36:34 PDT 2016


On Thu, 5 May 2016, John Crispin wrote:

> On 04/05/2016 23:31, Aaron Z wrote:
>> On many (most?) mailing lists, there is a prefix on all subjects which
>> has the list name (such as [OpenWRT-Devel])
>> Can this prefix be added for this list (or is that an option that I
>> missed when I signed up)?
>
> Hi,
>
> it was chosen not to use this prefix. there is a dedicated header
>
> List-Id: <lede-dev.lists.infradead.org>
>
> that you can use for filtering the mails into special folders.

A prefix isn't needed for auto filtering, but it sure helps for manually 
spotting related posts in a combined inbox.

I get mail from FAR too many lists to have a separate folder for each of them.

David Lang



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