On 02/09/2009 01:03 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:

> 
> Can the new TB or SM filter on the *content* of the header as well as on its
> "type"?

Yes of course. Same as the email filter. A header filter wouldn't be
very effective if it couldn't filter on the content of the header...

> 
> Headers have types (don't know the official name): "Reply To", "Delivered
> To" etc. and each type can take any of several values. For example, the
> "Reply To" header can take a (list of) e-mail address(s) as its value. The
> "Delivered To" header can take as a value "moderator for .." among other
> things. And so on.
> 
> The *mail* module of the existing TB can handle user-specified types and
> values. The *news* module can only handle a few built-in types but can
> handle values for the types it knows about.
> 
> Can the new SM not handle types and values in both news and mail?
> 

Yes. As mentioned, the problem is that OOo places two identical headers
in the msg. The filter detects the first Delivered-To and find no
'moderator' in the content, so it goes on to the next filter in the list.

So there are two bugs here:

1. OOo can put 'Delivered-To:moderator...' first, or modify the header
name in exmlm.

2. SeaMonkey 2.x/Thunderbird 3.x should be able to filter on multiple
headers (similar to multiple 'X-Originating-IP' headers in an email).

If you'd like to give TB 3.x a spin to see how it filters this list
(have to stay on topic for OOo :-), you can download and try:

<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/>

SeaMonkey:
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/>


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