Daniel Barclay wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
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. ...
...
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 forg[o]t to handle header field line
folding.)
Automatic filtering of unread messages that dragged back into the Inbox
folder also seems to work fin[e].
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).
Right next to the "Run Filters on Folder" menu item there is the "Run
Filters on Message" menu item (at least for 2.0.6/Windows).
(No, I'm not using that command; I am using the the "Run Filters on
Folder" command, though sometimes it feels like the "... on Folder"
menu item is hooked up to (invokes) the "... on Messages" action.)
> Are you sure you are
selecting the right folder or subfolder from the little selector at the
bottom of the pop-up?
Which window/etc. are you referring to with "pop-up"? When I activate
the Run Filters on Folder menu item, nothing pops up.
Must be a Linux vs. Windows thing, then. When I select tools->message_filters I
get a pop-up window to work on filters. And at the bottom of that, if I select
one individual filter, I get a select list to choose which folder to use as
target. You say you don't have that, so I can't help.
As I did not (oops) make clear: I'm talking about automatic vs. manual
operation of the _same_ filters. That is, I have confirmation that the
filters themselves are set up right, because automatic filtering (when
new mail comes in, and, at last usually, when I drag _unread_ messages
back to my Inbox) works--the messages are moved to the expected other
folders.
Another difference, in Linux it runs one filter on the selected folder, while
automatic operation runs them all in order. So in auto mode several filters
might produce similar action.
However, for message marked as read:
1. when I drag back messages, those read messages are not moved, and
2. when I go to the Inbox folder and invoke the Run Filters on Folder
menu item, only _one_ read message is moved (even when the list/table
has a selection containing multiple messages).
Is this standard POP3 or IMAP, or is it in some Microsoft mail vortex. They have
several mail server flavors, none of which seem to obey RFCs, and which
regularly get people to say "look at that" (and things I can't quote) even when
using MS tools to read their mail.
Sounds like the Windows SM is totally different, so I'll stop before I confuse
you.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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