Re: Subscriber actions for migrating lists to lists.linux.dev

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 17:16 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 01:58:22PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain all I need to do is a bit of duplicate message
> > elimination and to update my procmail rules, but on the latter,
> > what is the header I should be sorting on?  For current kernel.org
> > lists, it's either X-Mailing-list: or List-ID:  Will it be the same
> > for lists.linux.dev (so I just add to the domain in the rule)?
> 
> We still add both List-Id and X-Mailing-List headers, but as "List-
> Id" is an actual RFC standard, I suggest filtering based on that.
> E.g. for linux-staging@lists.linux.dev we add the following headers:
> 
>     X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
>     List-Id: <linux-staging.lists.linux.dev>
>     List-Subscribe: <mailto:linux-staging+subscribe@lists.linux.dev>
>     List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:
> linux-staging+unsubscribe@lists.linux.dev>
> 
> > Ordinarily I'd just wait and see, but given the volumes involved I
> > wasn't keen on waking up to hundreds of emails suddenly in my INBOX
> > instead of the list folders.
> 
> Note, that once we get around to vger lists, we'll be preserving the
> address and list-id without changes.

Thanks, I like hearing "you don't have to do anything at all".

>  The lists we're currently migrating are moving from other places --
> either from domains we don't control (lists.01.org), or from domains
> like lists.linuxfoundation.org where there are MLs that will likely
> not enjoy mlmmj-style list management and will move to groups.io
> instead after we cherry-pick the devel lists.

OK, so for ksummit-discuss and it's ilk I need

* ^List-Id: .*ksummit-discuss.lists.(linuxfoundation.org|linux.dev)

And I'll be good to go.

Thanks!

James