Hello Roelof, Saturday, August 4, 2007, 8:50:39 PM, you wrote:
RO> Hallo Gene, RO> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:18:53 -0400GMT (4-8-2007, 22:18 +0200, where I RO> live), you wrote: G>> I'm beginning to notice this sort of behavior, too. I am finding G>> filters, that have been successful for a long time, that just seem to G>> stop working. RO> That would be odd. Never happens to me. G>> I believe I have narrowed down the cause to the following conditions: G>> a) the order in which the filters are called, and/or G>> b) whether or not the "Continue processing with other filters" is checked. RO> The order of the filters is important. Every message is compared to RO> the filter conditions in the order of the filters in the sorting RO> office. TB starts with matching the common filters and after that it RO> continues with the account filters. RO> As soon as TB has a match the comparing is stopped and the filter is RO> executed. RO> There are two cases TB will continue matching filters: RO> 1) The triggered filter has subfilters, in this case TB will match the RO> message against the subfilters OK.... uh, then, if one (of several) of the subfilters is matched, is the comparing stopped with the first matching subfilter or does it test *all* subfilters. Once a subfilter is matched, is *all* matching stopped... and we move on to the next message? It is beginning to look like I am 'improving' one subfilter and screwing up my anticipated order of business.... RO> 2) The triggered filter has the option 'continue processing with RO> other filters' set, in this case the triggered filter will be RO> executed, but the matching will be continued like no match has been RO> found. G>> Could the behavior of either item have changed with one of the latest G>> versions of The Bat!? RO> Both the filter order and the 'continue processing...' option have RO> been the same since forever. -- Best regards, Gene mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 000763-5, 08/05/2007 Tested on: 8/5/2007 2:33:53 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
