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ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
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Mailing List [ML] #467

Closed peterchanws closed 4 months ago

peterchanws commented 5 months ago

I understand the assignment of [ML] mailing list to an email address allow the system to filer those messages in advance search. I edited the address book for John Kirtley jfk@jfkintampa.com

to John Kirtley [ML] jfk@jfkintampa.com

I saved my edit and goto Advance Search. I click "Yes" to Mailing List and press Enter and get "No matching messages."

I expect to see the email from John Kirtley [ML] jfk@jfkintampa.com

When I use search "John Kirtley" in Browser Correspondent, the result is 1 email from John Kirtley.

Is my understanding of how to set an email address wrong OR is my Advance Search operation incorrect?

jfarwer commented 4 months ago

This is incorrectly stated in the on-screen help where it says:

You can designate messages as originating from a mailing list by typing -- ML after the correspondent name.

In the address book, contacts are separated by two hyphens (--). To have the [ML] tag recognized, it has to be straight after the hyphens (any white spaces in between are ignored), for example:

--
John
john.miller@test.com
-- [ML]
The Daily Digest
tdd@test.com
--

If you now search for emails from mailing lists, it will show messages from The Daily Digest.

We should correct this in the on-screen help and clarify it in the ePADD documentation.

peterchanws commented 4 months ago

Many Thanks!