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Procmail & list–id headers

I stole and modified Sam Hocevar’s procmail rules for generic Debian mailing lists – removing one call to sed, and improving the efficiency of the regexes slightly. (Readability may have suffered.) Additionally, I made sure it caught mail about debconf.

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* ^List-Id: .*<\/[-a-z0-9]*\.lists.*\.deb(ian|conf)\.org>
{
    NAME=`echo "${MATCH}" | sed 's/^debian-//;
                                 s/\.lists.*\.deb\(ian\|conf\)\.org>$//'`
    :0
    FOSS/Debian/${NAME}
}

Similarly for GNOME:

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* ^List-Id: .*<\/[-a-z0-9]*\.gnome\.org>
{
    NAME=`echo "${MATCH}" | sed 's/\.gnome\.org>$//'`

    :0
    FOSS/GNOME/${NAME}
}

And for GNU (and nongnu.org):

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* ^List-Id: .*<\/[-a-z0-9]*\.(non)*gnu\.org>
{
    NAME=`echo "${MATCH}" | sed 's/\.\(non\)*gnu\.org>$//'`

    :0  
    FOSS/GNU/${NAME}
}

This removes the need for a lot of individual rules in the procmailrc.

I’m idly wondering whether these rules can be generalised yet further, so that any mail with a List-Id header gets filtered into an appropriate inbox. In the meantime, I can subscribe to lists from the Big Three with impunity. Bugzilla email still needs work.

: 23 May 2007 13:24 |  Tags: Debian Email Gnome Gnu Procmail |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem