2009/2/9 NoOp <[email protected]>

> On 02/09/2009 01:03 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>
> >
> > Can the new TB or SM filter on the *content* of the header as well as on
> its
> > "type"?
>
> Yes of course. Same as the email filter. A header filter wouldn't be
> very effective if it couldn't filter on the content of the header...
>
> >
> > Headers have types (don't know the official name): "Reply To", "Delivered
> > To" etc. and each type can take any of several values. For example, the
> > "Reply To" header can take a (list of) e-mail address(s) as its value.
> The
> > "Delivered To" header can take as a value "moderator for .." among other
> > things. And so on.
> >
> > The *mail* module of the existing TB can handle user-specified types and
> > values. The *news* module can only handle a few built-in types but can
> > handle values for the types it knows about.
> >
> > Can the new SM not handle types and values in both news and mail?
> >
>
> Yes. As mentioned, the problem is that OOo places two identical headers
> in the msg. The filter detects the first Delivered-To and find no
> 'moderator' in the content, so it goes on to the next filter in the list.
>
> So there are two bugs here:
>
> 1. OOo can put 'Delivered-To:moderator...' first, or modify the header
> name in exmlm.
>

>
> 2. SeaMonkey 2.x/Thunderbird 3.x should be able to filter on multiple
> headers (similar to multiple 'X-Originating-IP' headers in an email).


Today's TB *can* and *does* filter on multiple headers. I've been using it
for ages to filter this list as, evidently, have others.


>
> If you'd like to give TB 3.x a spin to see how it filters this list
> (have to stay on topic for OOo :-), you can download and try:
>
> <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/>
>
> SeaMonkey:
> <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/>
>


If SM can filter on type of header and content then having two headers the
same is irrelevant. Filter on type="Delivered To" with value="moderator...".
It works right now today in TB so why should it not work in the new SM?

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Harold Fuchs
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