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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:56:28 -0600, jbelk wrote:
j> There are actually as many robots as filters I've created. Each of
j> these little robots examine all the mail to see if any of it suits
j> what their defined job. If so, they grab it.
Exactly. :-)
j> If not they leave it in the inbox for another robot (filter) to
j> examine.
True. They'll also leave it for other robots to examine if the robots
user request does not involve moving the message and if you have told
the robot to 'continue processing with other filters'. :-)
j> After all the robots have examined all the mail whatever left over is
j> still in the inbox for me to manually sort.
That's right.
j> If, for some reason, two robots see mail that fits their programming
j> they both try to take it
and the robot that first get's hold of it get's to do it's thing. The
other robot whose programming fits the message will not get the message
to do it's thing. This is why the order in which you line up the robots
to sort your mail is important.
j> but in the end leave it in the inbox for me to puzzle over why it
j> didn't go where I told it to. This has been a great source of
j> frustration.
No. This is not what happens. If more than one robot is programmed to
process a particular message, only the robot that is highest in the
queue will get to process the message, unless you tell the robot to do
it's thing and *still* hand the message to the other robots, ie, to
continue processing with other filters.
The ordering of my filters is very crucial for me, since there is often
an overlap in programming between the 'robots'/filter rules in that a
single message often matches multiple filter rules. However, I just make
sure that the rule that I wish to get at the message first is highest
on the list with respect to the other matching filters.
Hope this helps to clear things up some more for you.
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