Re: [Evolution] filter on sender with '&' in the address

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 10:29, Bram Mertens wrote:
> Hi
> 
> A colleague of mine has '&' in his (and his wives') e-mail address, when
> I paste the address in a filter:
> if sender contains 'hername&hisname domain be'
> then ...
> the filter isn't stored properly.  Next time I open the filter the rule
> has been changed to:
> if sender contains 'hername'
> then ...
> 
> I assume the problem is the '&' in the address, is there a way to escape
> this character?

The filters are stored as XML, so writing it as "hername&hisname"
might work. But it's possible that it would get broken again the next
time the filters file is rewritten.

Either way, you should file a bug about this at bugzilla.ximian.com.

-- Dan