Re: [Evolution] Mail filters and regex

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 25 Jun 2001 09:22:34 -0400, John Affleck wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:28:00PM +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > You need (match-all ) around the bare or's.
> >
> > Use version 2 with (match-all ) around it.  That should work, if not its
> > a bug, but to work around just use match-all around the or.
> >
> > I was going to mention that last time, but i wasn't sure if
> > header-contains operated in a list context.
>
> [snip]
>
> > > - [sender] [contains] ["jaffleck"] [expression]
> > >   ["(header-contains "Subject" "regression failure"
> > >   "regression covermeter failure")"]

actually, what he meant was:

[sender] [contains] ["jaffleck"] [expression] ["(match-all
(header-contains "Subject" "regression failure" "regression covermeter
failure")"]

Jeff

> Sorry. It's early on a Monday morning and I'm easily confused. I tried
> the following combinations:
> - [sender] [contains] ["jaffleck"] [expression]
>       ["(header-contains "Subject" (match-all "regression failure"
>       "regression covermeter failure"))"]
> - [sender] [contains] ["jaffleck"] [expression]
>       ["(header-contains (match-all "Subject" "regression failure"
>       "regression covermeter failure"))"]
> - [sender] [contains] ["jaffleck"] [expression]
>       ["(match-all (header-contains "Subject" "regression failure"
>       "regression covermeter failure"))"]
>
> I _believe_ that the first one is the one you intended, but see above
> disclaimer.  None of these seemed to work.  Just for grins, I also
> tried # 1 with match-any instead of match all.  No change either.
>
> Well, I'll play around with this a little bit later after some coffee. 
> Maybe I'll make more sense then.
>
>       Thanks again,
>
>       John A.