Re: [Evolution] Filter not filtering....

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

delete actions are saved until the very end. this way if you have
filters which would copy the message elsewhere, it doesn't get copied
with the delete flag.

so... this would not be a bug.

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:23, lloyd foolswisdom com wrote:
> I think this may relate to problematic behaviour that I have found.
>
> I am running Evo 1.4.5 and in a desire to read less information, I have
> been trying to use filters on subjects to delete message threads that I am
> not interested in.  If these messages are from a mailing list where there
> is already a filter to move to another mailbox, the delete filter is not
> run regardless of how I order the filters in the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Lloyd
>
>
> >  I have bogofilter in place which puts my spam into a separate folder,
> > but I also have put a simple shell filter in place to separate out all
> > of these bogus MS security/virus emails that come in on my accounts and
> > them as they arrive.
> >
> > The filter is just a shell and looks like this:
> >
> > cat |egrep -i "^content-"| egrep -i -e '\.exe' -e '\.pif"' -e '\.com' -e
> > '\.bat' 2>&1 >> /dev/null
> > exit $?
> >
> > The exit code of the second egrep is the exit status of the shell.
> > (There's probably a nicer regexp that would eliminate the need for two
> > egreps, but this is at the quick & dirty stage right now.)
> >
> > My evolution filter verifies that the email has an attachment and if so,
> > runs the shell command on it. If the return is 0, it deletes the
> > message. Here is the rule.
> >
> >     <rule grouping="all" source="incoming">
> >       <title>VIRUS</title>
> >       <partset>
> >         <part name="attachments">
> >           <value name="match-type" type="option" value="exist"/>
> >         </part>
> >         <part name="pipe">
> >           <value name="command" type="command">
> >             <command>/home/jrh/bin/viruscheck</command>
> >           </value>
> >           <value name="retval-type" type="option" value="is"/>
> >           <value name="retval" type="integer" integer="0"/>
> >         </part>
> >       </partset>
> >       <actionset>
> >         <part name="delete"/>
> >         <part name="stop"/>
> >       </actionset>
> >     </rule>
> >
> > The odd thing is that this rule is much earlier in the stack than my
> > bogofilter rule. When email is checked, these emails end up in my spam
> > folder (per bogofilter.)
> >
> > If I then select and right-click on these 'infected' emails and apply
> > filters, this filter fires and the email is deleted.
> >
> > Why would it work manually, but not when the email is being received.
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John Harlow <jrh johnharlow com>
> >
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