On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:53:20 -0400, Richie de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Friday 14 September 2001 00:13, you wrote:
> > Greetings all. I have my filters set up in Kmail so that anything with
> > "Newbie" in the subject line or in the "to" field should be sent to another
> > folder. This mostly works, but many posts from this slip through to my
> > inbox. Upon examination, I can see no reason why these misbehaving posts
> > are any different from others that are filtered. I am running LM8. Any
> > ideas? TIA,
> > Peace
> > stan
>
> I got around it by setting a couple of extra filters just to make sure.
> There is one option in KMail filters called <any header>, and you might want
> to set up another filter to check the <Cc> header.
>
> Since I've added extra filters I'm catching about 98% of all the emails that
> should be going to my 'Newbie' folder.
>
> I wonder sometimes, since these emails are coming from all over the world, if
> some of the pattern matches in the filtering mechanism fail because the
> messages are using an incompatible character set. That's only a wild guess
> though.
>
> Richie
Here's what I had as a filter for the Newbie list in KMail back when I used it
(I have since switched to Sylpheed):
<any header> contains [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had a 100% success rate with this.
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