From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T00:00:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29634] Re: Subject numbers and threading

* Hal E. Fulton (hal9000@hypermetrics.com) wrote:

> Anyhow, I'll quietly go along with Matz and/or the majority on this
> issue. Enough said already.

If your mailer (use mutt) doesn't have the ability to thread purely on
message-id (use mutt) or simply insists on creating a new thread every
time it thinks the subject changes (use mutt), you can (use mutt) make a
procmail recipe which will move the list header for you (use mutt), ala:

(here keeping topical :)

:0fw
| ruby -n \
-e 'if /^Subject: (.*)(\[ruby-talk:[0-9]+\])(.*)$/ =~ ($_.chomp)' \
-e '    puts "Subject: #{$1 $3}"' \
-e '    puts "X-Ruby: #{$2}"' \
-e '    puts "X-Use: mutt"' \
-e 'else' \
-e '    print $_' \
-e 'end'

Proper handling of CRLF, subject lines appearing in message bodies, and
fixing any dumb mistakes are left as an exercise for the reader.

(use mutt)

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