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Re: Filter and From header line

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From: R. David Murray
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:02
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In article <9301280325.AA16613@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>, ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
> Ronald Harichandran said:
> ]Use of "from" in filter-rules currently matches text on the From: line.
> ]With some of the automatic LISTSERVers, the original poster's address is
> ]retained in the From: line, and the only way to know that the message is
> ]from a particular LISTSERVer is to look at the very first From header
> ]line.  Is there any way to instruct the filter program to scan the very
> ]first From header line in mail?
> 
> The original poster's addr is *always* retained in the "From:" line
> when such an item is distributed by LISTSERV.  "LISTSERV" of course 

A possible answer to the question, though, is that, at least in the case
of the few LISTSERV lists I am on, the To: header contains the name of
the list.  I have, for example, 'if to contains IBM-KERM then save ...'
in my filter rules file, and that seems to work well.  It does not work
quite so well for some Internet mailing lists; there, the To: field is
not as consistent; sometimes the mailing list name only shows up in the
'Apparently To:' header.  

Which brings me to a question/suggestion.  It seems to me that a filter
rule refering to the To field also 'sees' text in the cc: field.  Why not
be consistent and also look at 'Apparently To:'?  Or has all this changed
in the new versions (I'm running ELM 2.3 PL11)?
-- 
david			david@staff.udc.upenn.edu
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