On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 04:28, Steve Chaney wrote: > > > This is why I think it should be done. > > If I put up email filters to wipe out spam terms like teen sex, viagra, > etc., and a friend sends me a joke about viagra, his/her email will be > deleted, stone cold gone. > > I made 2 filters tonight just to make sure I know what I am talking > about. One DELETES email which has the word 'pookiehead' in it. One > saves any email sent by me to me. I put the latter up at the top of the > filter list, and the other at the bottom. Then I mailed myself an email > with the subject line POOKIEHEAD. Evolution deleted it. With priorities, > it would save the email, "flag" it as saved, and the delete filter would > be superceded. If I want 2 things done with it, I will make it do 2 > things in the same filter. That is already built in. So I'd say the > simple change is, never filter the same message twice. The higher > priority filter gets the task, and if 2 filters manage to handle the > same email with equal priority, the first one in the list gets it.
Why not just add 'Stop' to the filters you want to have priority? > > AFAIK MS Outlook doesn't even have this feature. Forte' Agent, the > usenet post/read client of the gods (until Pan matures, LOL), actually, > does this. > > Since I think I read Evo's 2.0 (2.1?) code is frozen, is it possible to > tweak this into a future version? > > Since I CANNOT CODE in C (and if I could, I would submit this myself as > a patch, as I could easily write this code in Perl), I offer that I'd > write the user manual addendum for filter priorities, with all the > necessary caveats. :) > > Would this be worthy to put in a non feature frozen version..? > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
