You're right, of course. The technically correct way would be to filter by the List-Id field and thunderbird supports this. I actually didn't know about this header field till now, thanks for pointing it out! But as you said, most webmails are crap (gmail apparently supports it, but not directly).
The problem is, that this functionality is usually so well hidden, that even experienced users won't find it if they don't know exactly what they want to do, so filtering by subject/from/to - although technically "wrong" - is the only "visible" way to do it.
Am 04.09.2016 um 15:28 schrieb grarpamp:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 8:17 AM, jensm1 jensm1@bbjh.de wrote:
you can then configure your inbox to put everything containing [tor-relays] into its own folder
This is non ideal as it continues the poor notion that bloating everyone's subject lines with, currently 13, characters of non content junk is a good idea, and it will cause mismatches on nonlist material. The proper way to segregate a list is to match on envelope headers such as the included X-BeenThere:, List-Id:, Sender:, not meta material in the body. Unix users can easily use fetchmail and maildrop to do this. Thunderbird and other clients should be able to. Webmails are typically junk so no guarantees there. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays