Hello Richard, On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (08/10/02, 04:25 +0700 GMT), Richard Wakeford wrote:
TF>> Check whether this is always true. Is "sender" the group? I believe in TF>> this group, it isn't. RW> Now you've got me thinking. As my name is not in the group or the RW> address book I assumed "sender" was when members of the RW> group mailed me and "recipient" was when a message went from me to RW> them? Am I wrong. No, you are quite right. We only have a probl;em in terminology: by "group" I actually meant "mailing list" (called "group" in Yahoo). I was not referring to addressbook groups in TB. RW> Again the rule works most of the time, just three addresses in the RW> group won't transfer across and no other rules are active on those RW> addresses. These addresses (if there is no typo) may appear twice in your addressbook. TF>> Your replies to the list will come in through the list anyway, and TF>> will be caught by the filter on the list. RW> Ok so, unless there are are reasons for complicated rules, I can RW> keep all my rules directed at the inbox? I filter mailing lists only at incoming time. Outgoing filters are important for "normal" mail, where your sent message doesn't come back to you. TF>> If everything worked fine and suddenly doesn't, I suspect there TF>> is an typing mistake involved. RW> No, it was the AND rule in the first filter string. I've now made RW> an alternative and it's OK. Fine. :-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "Deine Stereoanlage hat aber viele Knoepfe!" - "Na, ja, mit Reissverschluss saehe sie ja auch ziemlich bloed aus." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
