Hello A,
On Thursday, October 12, 2000 at 08:10:01 GMT -0500 (which was 6:10 AM
where I live) witnesses say A . Curtis Martin typed:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:24:48 +0200, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
KE>> filter is set up like this.
KE>> Name: pgp-sendkeys
KE>> Move to: trash.
KE>> Signalstrings Location Presence
KE>> send_pgp_keys Subject Yes
<snip>
> No, I change my subject as well in my auto-reply. This is a good thing
> to do because if, the recipient sends you a thank you note or wishes to
> indicate a problem with the auto-reply then the filter will latch on to
> "send_pgp_keys" in the reply and resend the keys. Not to mention
> problems with running your own tests. :-)
What about using a simple regexp in your filter string? I'm not
exactly sure if this is right, but perhaps someone will correct me if
I'm wrong. I'm just using Kirster's filter as an example.
String Location Presence
^Subject.\s*send.pgp.keys Kludges Yes
The advantage of this string is that if someone manually typed in the
string, slight mistakes would automatically be accepted. For example,
changing the underscores to spaces or dashes would still get matched.
Also any number of leading spaces would also be accepted.
> There have been a number of reports about filters
> suddenly not working anymore when they were just working previously,
> despite the filter not being adjusted in any way.
I've experienced this recently, but that was due to changing my
directory structure from within TB. I had two accounts that I was
rearranging with the following folder structures:
A
|_Inbox
|_ Sub1
|_ SubsubA
|_ SubsubB
B
|_ Inbox
I moved Sub1 to account B at the same level as account B's inbox, so:
A
|_ Inbox
B
|_ Inbox
|_ Sub1
|_SubsubA
|_SubsubB
I then checked all my filters affected by the change. TB still showed
the destination folders as \Sub1\Subsub(A|B), and any mail received
was still moved correctly. However, when I shut down TB and
restarted, new mail was *not* being moved correctly. The filters had
forgotten the new folder positions. The only surprising bit about
this experience is that TB remembered the new locations during the
session when I did the moves. I would expect TB to forget them right
away, give an error when new mail came in during that first session,
or remember the new locations for eternity.
> I've never personally
> experienced this. Usually when one of my filter breaks in such a way
> it's because I added another filter, which created problems with the
> filter rule ordering.
As seen above, changing folder locations can also cause problems.
Usually the problem only occurs when you move folders across accounts.
Moving to any level within the same account is usually no problem.
And now for my question of the day:
How much does TB know about other accounts when you log into a single
account? For example, say A and B above were just user accounts. If
I log into A, all I see is A. So there are two parts to this
question. First, will any filters in A that *move* or copy messages
to B still work? Second, will I be able to *create* a filter which
can move or copy a message to B while logged into A?
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Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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Using The Bat! 1.47 Beta/7
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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