On 2020/12/04 19:36, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It is simple. Maintenance is nil.
If it is simple, then there is no need for lists to edit Subject lines and add a listname, right? :-) Maintenance is nil because some lists added "List ID Text" to the subject -- certainly, NOT the place to put the list name, as that is derivable from the "To/From" headers.
This will work no matter what computer I use, what client I use, whether I'm home, remote, travelling, or as guest on somebody else's computer, without having to run and maintain my own imap server and access it remotely.
Yeah, I hear that. To read my email remotely, I would need to disable passwords for login (and only use a pre-generated certlist that is changed on some regular basis) and be able to use an 'ssh' session. Alternatively, I might be able to use Google's gmail IMAP if it really supports multiple folders and do the sorting on my machine, then upload my sorted mail to google via IMAP -- then I could read it using gmail's web interface. If I thought about it, I might find other, simpler ways to allow for remote mail access via "someone else's" IMAP server. All the times I traveled, I had access to my email server via a routed network connection to my laptop. This was sufficient for my needs at the time.
My ISP limits storage to just 2 GB, but it is enough the way I use it. Every month I mark on the INBOX every mail older than 2 months and "fetch" them on a single operation to my main computer. There, ancient procmail rules will sort those emails into folders for long time archival.
I'm not going to change this procedure.
If your home connection speed moves up to Gigabit, and it becomes more common to have multimedia in email, one good movie could exceed a 2GB limit, but I suspect that's far enough in the future given that some US ISP's (comcast) are charging more for smaller caps and lower speed limits in order to boost their profits without having to invest in more modern infrastructure.
Capish? :-D
I understand the difficulty in change. Sigh...