Daniel Barclay wrote:
What happened to mail filters between SeaMonkey 1.1.18 and 2.0.6?
In particular, is anyone else seeing big failures to filter (to match
and move message)?
No. I have on setup reading 70 newsgroups, RSS feeds, and twitter feeds, and
filtering them into folders, marking them with tags and priorities, and
generally helping me find the "must see" when I have a short break between
meetings or similar.
The usual issue is getting filters in the wrong order, since they run top down.
And you can speed thing up (or slow them down) by putting the most likely to
match at the top. I think the conditions are tested in order, too, based on
timing. So for "match any" put the most likely to hit first, for "match all" put
the most likely to fail at the top. Redoing filters is a major cause of people
saying "it way slower" (or faster, depending).
In short, no sign of an issue, and I beat filters!
Automatic filtering of new mail seems to work fine. (In fact, it works
better than in 1.1.18, which forget to handle header field line folding.)
Automatic filtering of unread messages that dragged back into the Inbox
folder also seems to work find.
However, manually triggered filtering doesn't seem to work right, at
least for messages that are marked as read. Invoking "Run filter on
folder" seems to process at most one message, even if multiple messages
are selected in the message list.
Filtering works on the folder level AFAIK, I don't think you can use it on a
subset of messages (never tried, though). Are you sure you are selecting the
right folder or subfolder from the little selector at the bottom of the pop-up?
Additionally, something else seems to be wrong with filtering, but I
haven't been able to identify any pattern or case yet.
--
Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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