499080 - nice/easy UI for mailing list filtering using message headers

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[roland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060309 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.21 (20090409)

I have been missing the following feature for a couple of years in thunderbird.
I would like to be able to filter on mailinglists. So that I don't have to figure out which kind of header this mailinglist uses to filter it.

Evolution has had this feature for years and I miss it.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

This would be a good candidate for a custom search action, once bug 495519 lands.

Do you happen to know technically what the filter is actually looking for in the message to call it a mailing list?

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you happen to know technically what the filter is actually looking for in
> the message to call it a mailing list?

List-Id seems to be the universal header here.

If you filter on custom header with List-Id, that should do what you want it to.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Do you happen to know technically what the filter is actually looking for in
> > the message to call it a mailing list?
> 
> List-Id seems to be the universal header here.
> 

It is for sure when mailman is in charge is it true with yahoogroups and or LISTserv based mailing list ?

Comment 4

[roland]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Do you happen to know technically what the filter is actually looking for in
> > the message to call it a mailing list?
> 
> List-Id seems to be the universal header here.
> 
> If you filter on custom header with List-Id, that should do what you want it
> to.

It would do what I want to do, but it is more userfriendly to just have thunderbrid figure out that the List-Id header is there and be able to create a rule for that mailinglist, without having to specify the emailaddress of the mailinglist.