Hello Roelof,

Monday, March 17, 2003, 7:17:41 PM, you wrote:

RO> Hallo Pete,

RO> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:46:08 -0500GMT (18-3-03, 0:46 +0100, where I
RO> live), you wrote:

PH>> Filters have me stumped!

PH>> I have strings set up as follows:

PH>> TheBat         Text
PH>> bat            Subject
PH>> TBUDL          Recipient
PH>> tbudl          Recipient
PH>> bat            Recipient

PH>> Source folder is inbox; destination folder, The Bat

PH>> I expected that any messages having any of those strings in the
PH>> associated locations would be sent to my The Bat folder.

RO> You're using five conditions. Unless you've setup all conditions as
RO> separate conditions (on the 'Alternate' tab) all of these five
RO> conditions have to met in order to trigger the filter.
RO> Since most of the messages on this list don't have 'bat' in their
RO> subject, the filter is bound to fail.

So the rules are ANDed? How do I get them to be ORed?

RO> To process the messages correctly, it's best to filter list messages
RO> based upon a string that's inserted by the list. A example would be:
RO> List-Id: <tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com>
RO> as string, present in the kludges (headers)
RO> Filtering on the list address among the recipients would work too, but
RO> that would have two matches when somebody's sending you the same
RO> message both on and off-list. (Some do.) That's why I prefer to filter
RO> on a string addded by the list server.

I see that I don not have the_bat.hlp. Can someone send it to me or
tell me where I can snarf a copy from?

Thanks.


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