# Best way to sort the emails in a mailing list? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 23, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517 "2006-07-23T18:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/1 "2006-07-23T18:58:31Z")
I know this isn’t really rails related, but I was wondering if anyone had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they’ve been involved with and which ones they haven’t. That way when a new email comes in and its in a thread you’ve been involved with, you could move it to another folder. I’ve looked at the email headers and can’t find out a way to do this. It kind of sucks having to sift through 200 emails to find replies to my question. Thanks for the help. Thank You, Ben J. E: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/2 "2006-07-23T19:06:22Z")
Ben J. wrote: > I know this isn’t really rails related, but I was wondering if anyone > had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they’ve been > involved with and which ones they haven’t. That way when a new email > comes in and its in a thread you’ve been involved with, you could > move it to another folder. > > I’ve looked at the email headers and can’t find out a way to do this. > It kind of sucks having to sift through 200 emails to find replies to > my question. > > Thanks for the help. > > Thank You, > Ben J. > E: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Ben, I am replying to this question from [www.ruby-forum.com](http://www.ruby-forum.com). I subscribe to the mailing list and have it go to a junk yahoo account (gmail would probably be a better choice). Until recently, ruby-forum had search capabilities but it is temporarily disabled. Fortunately, I can still search through my yahoo mail for topics I’m interested in finding. Anyway - ruby-forum is a better way to see the threads and cuts down on the “sifting” that you have to do. It isn’t a perfect solution to your problem but it gets you closer. Question for Ruby-forum: If I have an account, do you have the ability to see all my posts and go directly to those threads? How many posts I have made, etc… To date, I have only used the guest feature which doesn’t have this. This would solve Bens problem (especially with a “notify when thread is answered” feature. It would also be nice to click on a registered users name and see all the posts they have made. Regards, Michael mmodica at cox dot net ---
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/3 "2006-07-23T19:18:09Z")
Ben J. wrote: > I know this isn’t really rails related, but I was wondering if anyone > had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they’ve been > involved with and which ones they haven’t. That way when a new email > comes in and its in a thread you’ve been involved with, you could > move it to another folder. > > I’ve looked at the email headers and can’t find out a way to do this. > It kind of sucks having to sift through 200 emails to find replies to > my question. > > Thanks for the help. > > Thank You, > Ben J. > E: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid I subsrcibe via gmail and set up filters for all that I’m in. Works great for me. (I’m on ruby-forum now though for another reason and saw your post) ---
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/4 "2006-07-23T19:57:08Z")
So I went ahead and registered on ruby-forum (as I should have done a long time ago) and when you make a post on ruby-forum there is an option for “email notification” that you can enable or disable on the thread to which you have created or responded. You can also see a list of registered users and how many posts they have made. Andreas - have you thought about taking that one step further so that when I click on a users name it will show me all related posts from that user (either myself or another). Regards, Michael ---
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/5 "2006-07-23T20:10:18Z")
Michael - You may also find Nabble to serve your needs: [http://www.nabble.com/](http://www.nabble.com/) RubyOnRails-Users-f13831.html I’ve been disappointed with the regular downtimes (especially with search), also with the poor search options with ruby-forum. I think there’s a firefox nabble search plugin somewhere as well. cheers, Jodi ---
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/6 "2006-07-23T21:02:27Z")
Jodi, Thank you - nabble is very intuitive and has a nice interface. I had not heard of it previously. Michael ---
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-way-to-sort-the-emails-in-a-mailing-list/99517/7 "2006-07-23T21:41:47Z")
On Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 11:54:50AM -0500, Ben J. wrote: > I know this isn’t really rails related, but I was wondering if anyone had a clever way to sort out which mailing list threads they’ve been > involved with and which ones they haven’t. That way when a new email comes in and its in a thread you’ve been involved with, you could move it > to another folder. muttng kicks ass. for proper use, you need procmail as well. its sorting is damn fast, as well, not to mention regex search, and all the usual slew of goodies, like color-coding threads youve replied to, or have read, or tagged, and of course emacs as the text editor doesnt hurt either . if you mean on the web? i dunno. i havent found a good maildir-enabled webapp that works the way i’d want (basically like muttng, but with better searching and a frontpage to see several lists at once)