Re: [Evolution] two stupid questions

[Janne Morén <jan moren lucs lu se>]

On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 17:46, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 11:22, Ron Smits wrote:
> > > > 2 filtering on maillinglist
> > > > When you setup a filter to filter on maillinglist. The filter will only
> > > > look at the To: of the mail not to the Cc:. So I have to extend the
> > > > filter to not only check wether mailinglist is <..> but also I have to
> > > > check wether some other criteria is met too (subject contains
> > > > [Evolotion] for example). Is this intentional?
> > >
> > > what rule are you using "Recipients Contains"? If so, that *does* check
> > > the Cc also so I dunno what you are saying.
> >
> > right button on a message -> select "Create rule from message" -> select
> > "filter on Mailing list".
> >
> > This will create a filter that has as criterion is "mailinglist" "is"
> > <email address of mailinglist>
>
> oh, this doesn't check either to To or the Cc headers, it just checks
> List-Id and other similar mailing-list headers. Perhaps the messages it
> is failing on are not actually forwarded from the mailing list software
> but instead cc'd directly to you?
>
> Jeff

I've seen this as well; sometimes people mail to another list member and
cc:s the list, in which case it does not get caught by the filter.


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