Re: [GeneX-dev] extra gibberish at top of list messages?

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"Greg D. Colello" <gd...@nc...> writes:

> I am using Sun's DT mail.
> 
> Frankly I don't understand all this email filtering stuff. I have
> never really had a significant enough email problem that required me
> to even worry about filtering.

Uhh... I remember a few times when you indicated you were getting a
bit too much email. 

I moderate one mailing list. I want to know when I get email to be
approved. 

I am on around 10 other mailing lists. Many I just browse once every
couple of days. 

I like to have all my email pre-sorted into folders based on whether
they're are from one of the mailing lists, or personally to me, etc.

Makes my life easier.

However, this is not about filter.

> SourceForge email is the first case I've seen, where lots of extra
> lines appear in my header. That makes me think that something needs
> to be turned off at the "Source".

If you every look at all the headers that are in normal email, there
are many, many, many. Most of them are pointless to your email reading
program. It's job is to not show them. It should be configurable to
allow you to set which headers appear and which do not. 

If to many of the sourceforge headers show up, it is because your
email program thinks you want to see them. So find a way to tell it
not to.

It has nothing to do with sourceforge. The internet email RFP enables
mail servers and mail programs to add any headers they feel like (most
of these start with 'X-' by convention). It's up to the mail client to
do something useful with the headers.

jas.