Re: [Evolution] Filter not filtering....

[<lloyd foolswisdom com>]

Wow, you replied an hr before I sent the msg and I am on the EST coast :-p

> delete actions are saved until the very end. this way if you have
> filters which would copy the message elsewhere, it doesn't get copied
> with the delete flag.
>
> so... this would not be a bug.
Is it documented?

Can this be disabled?  Please, please, please... what is the point of
ordering then?


> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:23, lloyd foolswisdom com wrote:
>> I think this may relate to problematic behaviour that I have found.
>>
>> I am running Evo 1.4.5 and in a desire to read less information, I
>> have been trying to use filters on subjects to delete message threads
>> that I am not interested in.  If these messages are from a mailing
>> list where there is already a filter to move to another mailbox, the
>> delete filter is not run regardless of how I order the filters in the
>> list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lloyd
>>
>>
>> >  I have bogofilter in place which puts my spam into a separate
>> folder,
>> > but I also have put a simple shell filter in place to separate out
>> all of these bogus MS security/virus emails that come in on my
>> accounts and them as they arrive.
>> >
>> > The filter is just a shell and looks like this:
>> >
>> > cat |egrep -i "^content-"| egrep -i -e '\.exe' -e '\.pif"' -e
>> '\.com' -e '\.bat' 2>&1 >> /dev/null
>> > exit $?
>> >
>> > The exit code of the second egrep is the exit status of the shell.
>> (There's probably a nicer regexp that would eliminate the need for
>> two egreps, but this is at the quick & dirty stage right now.)
>> >
>> > My evolution filter verifies that the email has an attachment and if
>> so, runs the shell command on it. If the return is 0, it deletes the
>> message. Here is the rule.
>> >
>> >     <rule grouping="all" source="incoming">
>> >       <title>VIRUS</title>
>> >       <partset>
>> >         <part name="attachments">
>> >           <value name="match-type" type="option" value="exist"/>
>> >         </part>
>> >         <part name="pipe">
>> >           <value name="command" type="command">
>> >             <command>/home/jrh/bin/viruscheck</command>
>> >           </value>
>> >           <value name="retval-type" type="option" value="is"/>
>> <value name="retval" type="integer" integer="0"/>
>> >         </part>
>> >       </partset>
>> >       <actionset>
>> >         <part name="delete"/>
>> >         <part name="stop"/>
>> >       </actionset>
>> >     </rule>
>> >
>> > The odd thing is that this rule is much earlier in the stack than my
>> bogofilter rule. When email is checked, these emails end up in my
>> spam folder (per bogofilter.)
>> >
>> > If I then select and right-click on these 'infected' emails and
>> apply filters, this filter fires and the email is deleted.
>> >
>> > Why would it work manually, but not when the email is being
>> received.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > John
>> >
>> > --
>> > John Harlow <jrh johnharlow com>
>> >
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