Hey, How's it going? You know, I used to use Eudora religiously (v1 through v3, and Pro, not lite), but I just got so burned out on being restricted within the "space" of the Eudora interface -- I far prefer being able to have messages free-floating anywhere on my nice 19" monitor, without having to have the main interface huge. Also, I seem to recall that it did not seem to be multi-threaded, so that anytime it was doing anything, like sending or receiving mail, you just had to wait for it. On a modem, that really sucked! (Also, Eudora did not gracefully deal with HTML mail.) What version are you running? Are any of these things overcome yet? I think I *tried* v4, Pro, but on top of the old issues, it was also bloated. To answer your question as to whether or not Outlook would let you filter on those specific fields: Nothing (that I've ever seen) filters as good as Eudora! And the only thing that even comes close is Outlook! Specifically of all the lists that I subscribe to, if the headers are consistent, there is no problem.
uhoh, not a 'my software is better' war...
Please, I agree whole-heartedly - if there's a solution, I'm all for it.
unfortunately not all mailing list managers do a good job. From, To, CC, BCC and Reply-To are not to be touched, for various reasons. Headers that are added by MailMan (the package used for all but one Zope related lists I know) adds the following headers:
If I run through the Zope list, I see a huge amount of variation in the From line, mostly; some messages are From: "zope-admin@zope.org on behalf of <user>", some are From "<user> on behalf of <user>", and some are just From "<user>"... is it not the list manager software that is rewriting this line? Is this difference only because sometime the messages are sent To: zope@zope.org, and sometimes they are CC'd there, instead? Sounds like a problem with the manager, to me.
Sender: zope-admin@zope.org Errors-To: zope-admin@zope.org X-Mailman-Version: 1.0b8 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Users of the Z Object Publishing Environment <zope.zope.org> X-BeenThere: zope@zope.org
Hmmm, custom headers, in addition to the re-written From line?
Hmmm.. I think that we would go down the totaly wrong pathway here if we try to accomodate erroneous Microsoft software all the time. =)
Like I said, this is not about me, M$, or even email clients. It's about header consistency. IMHO, whatever is rewriting that From line should be fixed. --Jon