Hello George, On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:23:03 -0800 GMT (06/01/2005, 10:23 +0700 GMT), George Mitchell wrote:
GM> As I understand the problem, you have a lot of complicated common GM> filters. Since the common filters are evaluated before account GM> filters, you have to specify "continue processing other filters" for GM> each common filter in order to get to the account filters. So, every GM> message gets evaluated by every common filter, and this overwhelms GM> TB!. Correct? Correct. GM> If so, you could prevent this by having a single common filter with GM> the special matching condition "Any message". It would have "continue GM> processing other filters" checked. All of your current existing GM> common filters would become sub-filters of this one, and each GM> sub-filter would have "continue processing other filters" unchecked. I follow. GM> By definition each incoming message would match the common filter, so GM> TB! would begin evaluating the sub-filters. This would continue until GM> one was matched. At this point evaluation of all remaining GM> sub-filters would abort, and since the parent filter allowed GM> subsequent filters, the account filters would be evaluated. Now I get it! Thanks for your patient explanation. GM> If only common sub-filters worked. Now that is a bummer, then. I have come up with another idea: I can ask the sysad to add an X-Received-By header to incoming mails, shwoing which mailbox each mail actually comes in on. Then I can create common filters in TB that set the colour code according to that header and continue processing. There would only be 8 of those filters with one condition each, so I don't think that would make TB choke. We are using a Merak mail server in the office. Is Merak able to add such a header? TF>> This describes that subfilters in common filters should work. I don't TF>> think this is related to my problem. GM> This is a bug I think Ritlabs really needs to fix. Filtering is a GM> pretty key feature, and a part of it simply doesn't work. It's not GM> like this is an elusive bug. ACK. -- Cheers, Thomas. Nennen Sie eine Touristen-Attraktion in Rom: "Der schiefe Turm von Pisa" Message reply created with The Bat! 3.0.2.10 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
