About GnuCash lists

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
> Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM, AmigaPhil <AmigaPhil at ping.be> wrote:
>>
>>> Your message I'm replying to has no list info in header (List-Id:).
>>> I can add a sorting rule to keep the gnucash related mails grouped,
>>> like searching for "Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>" in header ...
>>> Do you have an alternate idea on how to identify such mails (not
>>> sent by the list) ?
>>> (I also need to identify incoming mails to avoid having wanted ones
>>> being filtered-out.)
>>
>> I just looked at the email source, and messages from the list DO have
>> a List-ID: just as expected. Probably your MUA (email reader) is
>> hiding it. ("Thor 2.6a"?) It's possible it's getting stripped out
>> somewhere before it gets to you, but I would hope not. It shouldn't.
>
> Like this message, I addressed a copy of the mail he was referring to to
> both AmigaPhil (To:) and the list (Cc:); it's likely he was inspecting
> the personally-delivered copy (no List-* headers), not the
> takes-a-little-while-to-deliver list copy.

Yes, and MailMan is probably set to NOT deliver the list message when
it sees that the recipient is already named. (I believe it's the
default setting.) So unfortunately, a filter for the messages based
solely upon list-id would miss any message that is actually addressed
to you.