Re: Unexpected filtering of headers

[manu <eallaud yahoo fr>]

On 24.06.2004 03:13:25, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that one of my filters doesn't seem to work as  
> expected. I've set up a filter to move mails matching the expression  
> "postmaster localhost" in user header "X-Original-To" to an mbox  
> named "Postmaster". Currently, there is one message in the Inbox that  
> this filter should match:
>
> > From somebody some where  Thu Jun 24 08:48:59 2004
> Return-Path: <somebody some where>
> X-Original-To: pc localhost
> X-Original-To: postmaster localhost
>
> Alas, it does nothing. Now, when I change the filter to match  
> "pc localhost", it moves this mail and all others from my Inbox to  
> Postmaster.
> The problem seems to be that the filtering routine only looks for the  
> first occurence of a given header. That's okay for uniq headers like  
> From: or To:, but it just doesn't work for headers that could get  
> inserted at any relay a mail is passing through. Would it be possible  
> to  grep through the complete header part for occurences of (at  
> least) user headers?

That is possible, just one question: what does make more sense when  
searching for a user header that can appear several times: match if ONE  
of the occurences contains the given string? (This would be coherent  
with the way filters are applied now).
Bye
Manu