Re: [Evolution] Filter feature request

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 06:55, Mertens Bram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apparently the filters are case-sensitive (no problem with that) but
> unfortunately most people on mailing lists are not! :)

We use emacs logic to decide whether or not to make the search
case-sensitive. If any character is upper-case, the search immediately
becomes case-sensitive. If all characters are lowercase, then we search
in a case-insensitive manner.

> I've created a filter that looks for messages on the OpenOffice.org
> mailing list where the subject contains "Calc". I would like this filter
> to also find messages where the subject contains "calc" and "Cell" and
> "cell".

so instead of using "Calc" and "Cell", use "calc" and "cell"

> I can do this by creating several filters, but I've got a lot of filters
> already so I like to combine them as much as possible i.e. all filters
> that send messages to a certain folder or perform the same action in one
> filter.  But this requires the filters to be of the format:
> IF rule A
> OR IF rule B AND rule C
> OR IF ...
> THEN ...
>
> Is this already possible? (I've noticed the "sounds like" argument, what
> does that do?) Or is this something I should make a feature request
> about?

already doable, you just didn't read the manual :-)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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