Re: [Evolution] Message filters' problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 20:11 +0100, Doublas M2 wrote:
> On 11/3/06, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> >
> > This might be relevant:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326252#c6
> >
> > It relates to a bug I filed a while back which caused "Apply All
> > Filters" to fail in some cases. Jeff comments that you can't use regular
> > expressions in filter matching rules (though Evo doesn't stop you), and
> > I would speculate that "Subject starts with string" might be tripping
> > the same bug.
> >
> > poc
> 
> I read this bug but I'm not sure if it is related to. I don't use
> regular expressions nor use mlist filter.

My point is that "Subject starts with string" sounds like shorthand for
a regular expression: "Search for ^string". I don't mean that you are
specifying it that way, but that Evo might inadvertently be doing so
internally. This is all speculation of course.

poc