Hallo Stuart, On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:54:10 +0100GMT (9-9-2004, 11:54 +0200, where I live), you wrote:
SM> Filters are driving me potty. Don't despair. SM> I belong to a mailing list for Pentax camera owners. This list has SM> a lot of messages a day but I am only interested in messages that SM> are about my camera, That's understandable. SM> namely a "*ist D" - a stupid name I know. But a nice camera SM> However, what I really want to do, is delete any messages SM> that do not contain these. ACK SM> However, having removed the virtual folder and create a new filter SM> on the inbox using the same criteria I find I get NO matches!! I guess that you had a filter in place that moved Pentax messages to another folder. Now if you follow that with a filter that will be triggered by a subselection of the same messages it won't do that, unless you set the option 'continue processing with other filters' (both v2 and v3) or when you make the second filter a subfilter for the first (v3 only) As you're looking for something that'll work for both v2 and v3, you could try this: Filter1: Sender contains list-address AND message source does not contain *ist d AND message source does not contain *istd Action move to trash Filter2: Sender contains list-address Action move to folder Filters are processed top down in the sorting office. As filter1 processes every list message without '*ist d' and '*istd' the only list messages that filter2 will see are those with either one or both of these strings. So filter2 doesn't need to be more specific than this. When you'd change the order of these two filters, this solution wouldn't work anymore, because filter2 picked all of the messages, therefore letting filter1 run dry. To prevent this you'd need to set 'continue processing with other filters' on filter2 and you'd need to set the source folder for filter1 to the target folder of filter2. Changing the order would have two disadvantages. 1: Most of your list messages will be processed twice by a filter, this takes time 2: Your filters are getting more complicated 3: Even though they're deleted from your list folder, the unwanted list messages will be copied to your list folder and therefore they'll take space until the next time you're compressing that folder. Note: Most people tend to skip on characters that are neither letter nor number (hardly anybody on this list talks about 'The Bat!') and unless Pentax owners differ on this point (what I cannot imagine, myself owning a Pentax as secondary camera) they'll tend to skip the asterix, so you could do that too. -- Groetjes, Roelof The Bat! 3.0.0.8 Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 1 pop3 account, server on LAN Disclaimer: Any opinion stated in this message is not necessarily shared by my budgies or rabbits.
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