From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 16:13:51 +0000 (+2000)
Subject: Re: Batch tagging - add id_list as tag possible?
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Re: Batch tagging - add id_list as tag possible?
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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+Subject: Re: Batch tagging - add id_list as tag possible?
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+Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
+
+> Hi
+>
+> I would like to tag my mails automatically by using the id_list as the tag
+> name, but as far as I can se in the manual, this is not possible yet. Is
+> this true?
+>
+
+That's correct.
+
+> It would be great if I could have
+> +%id_list
+>
+> And it would automatically tag my mails with the list I'd?
+
+It should be possible to script that, using e.g. formail to extract the
+list id. Be aware that the list-id header is often not really suitable
+for use as a tag, since it has quotes, spaces, and various punctuation
+in it. I guess you can make that work if you really want to.
+
+d