Hello Thomas, Monday, July 25, 2005, 2:09:00 AM, you wrote:
DE>>>>> Filter 1 catches spam and moves it to a spam folder. DE>>>>> Filter 2 catches list and moves it to a list folder. DE>>>>> Which one should take preference if the message get caught by both ? >>>> The one that is topmost, if "Continue with other filters" is not >>>> checked. >>> Yep that is checked. (Don't ask it gets complicated) >>> So the message can get caught by both filters. >>> So I ask again which one should move it when it gets caught by both. ASK>> IIRC, the message is a "fixed object" during the filtering stage. If both ASK>> filters move the message, you should have two copies in the two destination ASK>> folders (I haven't tried that however). > No. The keyword for the filter here is "move", not copy. The message > is an "object" in computer-speak, don't know what a "fixed object" is. > Filter 1 moves the object (message) to the spam folder, filter 2 moves > it to the list folder. So it ends up in the list folder only, there > are no two copies (unless you browse deleted messages, but we won't go > into this). He would have two copies has he told the filters to "copy" > instead of "move" the message. ASK>> Maybe thats a topic for TBTECH? > No, rather for TBUDL. It's not a very technical question, every user > has filters like this so it's rather basic, and it's not a beta issue either. >>> I have a filter for friends and one for lists. It is possible for a >>> message to get caught by both. ASK>> To avoid that, I've set up my filters for mailinglists as subfilters. > How complicated. The more straight-forward solution is to *not* check > "continue processing...". If you are not sure and get too many false > positives, recalibrate your spam filter. The reason that I put it here is because filter activity was changes some time ago, and I was wondering if it had changes again. -- Best regards, David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.51.9 | '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/
