Re: Complex boolean filters (was: Re: Outgoing filters don't work?)
PowerMail Engineering wrote: Christian Roth wrote: (from startswith kris OR from startswith roth) AND (account is 'Private') It is of course not as flexible as boolean expressions, but but you can do this with the following filter: [from] [includes at least one of the words] [kris* roth*] [account] [is] [private] [all conditions are met] You can also use: [from] [is in folder/group] [foo] if you have a group or folder containing the addresses you want to filter. [breaking my promise] Thanks Jérôme, quite elegant! This made me finally RTFM at http:// www.ctmdev.com/documentation/manual/searching.html. Hey, I never said that the current filter concept is bad! It just requires sometimes a little bit of thought (which is never a bad thing, anyway...) and it has definitely its strengths over other implementations due to the ordered evaluation, which is essentially a (implicit) priority attribution to rules - which IS useful... Regards, Christian.
Re: Complex boolean filters (was: Re: Outgoing filters don't work?)
Christian Roth wrote: Second, the need for understanding and using filter ordering and the stop checkbox partially comes from the fact that I cannot express a desired condition in one single filter only: (from startswith kris OR from startswith roth) AND (account is 'Private') It is of course not as flexible as boolean expressions, but but you can do this with the following filter: [from] [includes at least one of the words] [kris* roth*] [account] [is] [private] [all conditions are met] You can also use: [from] [is in folder/group] [foo] if you have a group or folder containing the addresses you want to filter. Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering - PowerMail 4.2 is really, really fast. It is designed with a nice, simple interface and lots of options. Searching through literally thousands of messages and addresses takes only an instant and the import from Mail.app worked like a charm. Daniel M. East, President of the The Mid-Atlantic Macintosh User Groups Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
