Re: [OT] Re: Folks without the retail version of Tiger may...

FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Sun May 01 20:15:16 2005

On May 1, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Angela Brett wrote:

>>
>> Apple's mailing lists support "List-id" and friends. I believe 
>> this is the recommended way to detect messages from their lists.
>>
>> For example for this list (just do a contains on "cocoa-
>> dev.lists.apple.com")...
>>
>> List-Id:    Discussions regarding native Mac OS X application 
>> developments using Cocoa frameworks <cocoa-dev.lists.apple.com>
>>

>
> I just wish I could use List-id for creating a smart mailbox in 
> Mail. Filters/rules/whatever they're called are so the-day-before-
> yesterday. I'm baffled as to why rules and smart mailboxes have 
> such different sets of criteria, and I can't easily make a smart 
> mailbox out of the criteria for a rule, or vice versa.


Well they are based on spotlight and what items it indexes. I don't 
believe it indexes anything other then message content and a few 
basic headers at this time.

You can create a mail filter that uses the List-Id to sort mail. I am 
not sure if you know this (assume you do but the above message isn't 
clear) but simply use the Edit message headers option to add List-Id.

If you want a feature...

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/>

-Shawn