Jon S. Jaques wrote:
Does anybody know what list software Zope is using?!?!? The headers of messages that I receive from the list are SOOOoooo inconsistent that they have defied my filters again and again!
If there's a moderator listening out there, please, do anything you can to rectify this! As I am subscribed to *several* high-volume lists, it's a serious problem when messages from the list continually land in my Inbox, along with my business-related email.
Zope.org uses mailman, of which i'm one of the core developers (though i basically haven't had time to continue with it since coming to digital creations). As far as i know mailman is RFC compliant, and in fact yours is the first complaint i've heard about being unable to filter due to inconsistent headers. (I'd be interested to see an example where the envelope sender differed.) I am *very* surprised that you're unable to make a rule that matches the [Zope] consistently. I have a suspicion that the problem, instead, is that such a match is an MS Exchange "client side" rule, which does not run when your outlook client is not running. Perhaps that accounts for the apparently unmatched items. If that's the case, i suggest concocting a rule that works client side - for exchange you have to bend over backwards a bit (and watch your rear:). For instance, if you add an entry to your address book with zope@zope.org email address, then you can specify that any items with to or cc headers matching that address go to some folder - that's a server side rule, and won't miss anything. If you're really convinced that mailman is doing the wrong thing, then bring it up on the mailman-developers@python.org mailing list. However, you may want to first check the appropriate rfc to confirm that. I believe it is correct for the mailing list mechanism to set the envelope sender to the address of the mailing list, for numerous reasons. I also believe mailman does this consistently, but would want to know if it doesn't. Ken Manheimer klm@digicool.com