there's a little check box. Stop filter or something like that. If you check it, the subsequent filters won't apply.
all the best Matthias --------------------------------- schmidt-systementwicklung <www.schmidt-system.de> <www.schmidt-system.com> --------------------------------- Am/On: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:52:09 +0200 schrieb/wrote: Chris Chris Walker >Hi all, > >Another problem, this time with filters. Correct me if I'm wrong but on >incoming mail, filters are taken in turn. To me at least this means that >if the first filter says 'dump this in a particular folder (eg PMail >Discuss), that action is carried out and subsequent filters should have >no effect. > >In my case my list filters are first in line. The PM filter is set to: >IF 'Reply to', 'Sender' or 'to' contain [EMAIL PROTECTED] >then, if ANY condition is met, place the msg in the PMail discuss folder. > For some reason this does not always work and clearly some of the later >filters designed to dump spam in the trash are operating and some of the >list stuff ends up in the trash. This problem is not confined to the PM list. > >The only reason I can think of is that PM checks the first condition on >each filter and then moves to the filter rather than checking all >conditions in the filter and then moving on to the next. > >I should add that later filters automatically dump any HTML stuff in the >trash and others are set to deal with multipart msgs in the same way >unless the sender is in the address book. I keep a small group in the >address book to allow some of this, a lot of which comes from windows users. > >Some of this i suspect is caused by he way some listservers work. >'Sender' is sometimes the msg originator, although 'Reply to' is usually >to the list address. This does seem to vary, probably depending on the >software the server uses. > >Any ideas, comments etc? > >cheers >Chris > >PM 4.1.3 OS 9.2.2 >
