Re: [Evolution] Feature Request: filter priorities?

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 04:28, Steve Chaney wrote:
> This is why I think it should be done.
>
> If I put up email filters to wipe out spam terms like teen sex, viagra,
> etc., and a friend sends me a joke about viagra, his/her email will be
> deleted, stone cold gone.
>
> I made 2 filters tonight just to make sure I know what I am talking
> about. One DELETES email which has the word 'pookiehead' in it. One
> saves any email sent by me to me. I put the latter up at the top of the
> filter list, and the other at the bottom. Then I mailed myself an email
> with the subject line POOKIEHEAD. Evolution deleted it. With priorities,
> it would save the email, "flag" it as saved, and the delete filter would
> be superceded. If I want 2 things done with it, I will make it do 2
> things in the same filter. That is already built in. So I'd say the
> simple change is, never filter the same message twice. The higher
> priority filter gets the task, and if 2 filters manage to handle the
> same email with equal priority, the first one in the list gets it.

Why not just add 'Stop' to the filters you want to have priority? 
> AFAIK MS Outlook doesn't even have this feature. Forte' Agent, the
> usenet post/read client of the gods (until Pan matures, LOL), actually,
> does this.
>
> Since I think I read Evo's 2.0 (2.1?) code is frozen, is it possible to
> tweak this into a future version?
>
> Since I CANNOT CODE in C (and if I could, I would submit this myself as
> a patch, as I could easily write this code in Perl), I offer that I'd
> write the user manual addendum for filter priorities, with all the
> necessary caveats. :)
>
> Would this be worthy to put in a non feature frozen version..?
>
>
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