Re: [Evolution] Mail filters and regex

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 25 Jun 2001 11:32:45 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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")"]

With an extra closing ) to make it complete ...

> 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.e. this one.

Umm, this is some sor tof bug.

Jeff msg'd me a bunch of stuff that didn't make sense earlier, i need to
talk to him to see what he was on about, but he's gone to sleep.


> > 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.
>
>
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