On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:43:30 -0800, Januk Aggarwal wrote:
[..snip..]
> Ok, perhaps I didn't make myself clear, I meant that if they *add* the
> date criteria, so you would have to match some string (like you do
> currently) and the age to activate the filter. Then if you wanted to
> purge an entire folder, you just put a general filter which matches all
> strings. :)
OK, if they add the filter by string capability, how would the
filter be triggered with the present functionality that TB! has?
> Well it depends on my needs, right? If I want to filter all mail from
> one folder to one other folder, then I can just do one common string.
> For example I could search for the letter e, anywhere in the message.
> I'm 99.999% sure to get all messages from folder A into folder B.
> However if I want to separate the messages in folder A to folders
> B,C,D,E,F,G,... then of course I'll need to create a specific string
> appropriate to the task. How else could that be done?
Soon after my reply to your previous message I felt silly because
I do use a non-specific filter string for spam filtering and that is the
letter 'e' as you mentioned. I agree then that a single filter rule using
a non-specific search string added to the message age criterion could be
use to move all messages within the specified age limits. :)
>> You would then have have to apply it *manually*!!! That does
>> not make it easy.
> I'm not sure I understand. Why would you have to apply it manually?
Well, either the filtering will be dynamic in that, once set to
automatic, any message that fits the filter criteria would be immediately
filtered. The only other way would be to support filter sets and the
ability to apply a filter set to a folder upon closing/opening the folder
or when TB closes or starts.
> The whole point of a filter set is that it should be optional to run
> automatically or manually only.
Automatic filtering in TB is quite limited in scope at present. :(
> I'm getting a little confused, are we not arguing the same point here?
Quite likely we are. You were however arguing, or rather
*discussing* ahead of me (the only person I have argued with on this list
is Steve and that's because of his argumentative nature <vbg>), armed with
functionality that TB does not yet have. You proposed adding filter
criteria based on age to the sorting office filters applet as an easy
alternative to my suggestion, without mentioning anything about trigger
mechanisms to promote automation; trigger mechanisms which don't yet exist
in TB!. You mentioned them towards the end though.
Anyway, the superior solution requires an overhauling of sorting
office filters. That seems to be a version 2 phenomenon. The other
solution only requires tweaking of the present functionality. I agree
wholeheartedly, that the overhaul route is the better of the two but
they'll soon be abandoning version 1.xx and I doubt they'll be making any
major changes to it.
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