I just want to voice an opinion on using filters with an address book lookup.
Many people coming to The Bat are coming from another email program (thank God), and have imported their address book from another source, or they have added their addresses by hand when they first install the program. Along with that, here is the problem. If you use a filter that executes and checks the Address Book for a filter conditional, the filter will fail if the Address entry in the book doesn't follow The Bat protocol - which is really only possible if you add the entry via The Bat's ADD SENDER TO ADDRESS BOOK. If you import, or add the entry by hand, the filter conditional will fail. I would appreciate the ability to check STRICTLY the email address, not the ITEM format. In other words; These SENDERS (in the headers): Shane Monroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Shane R. Monroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monroe, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monroe, Shane R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When checking the address book should resolve to a match of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right now, it doesn't - which means that importing your list, adding people by hand, etc. all but BREAKS the filtering system - when in reality, email addresses are UNIQUE and should be resolvable to that level. I feel this is a great liability of the filtering system - and could REALLY turn off 'convertees' that have spent considerable time moving them over. I'm not sure the advantages of the current method of comparing - since all email addresses are unique - why on earth would we check some email formatting instead of JUST the address? Thanks - if this mail doesn't make sense, mail me offline and I'll try to explain it. I feel this is really important. Thanks guys! P.S. If I'm missing a big flick item here that already exists, I'd appreciate the correction! :) -- Shane R. Monroe Dark Unicorn Productions http://www.darkunicornproductions.com ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
