Re: [Evolution] Filter Problems - Not the Usual Ones...

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

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On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:48, Traci Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:35, guenther wrote:

> > That's just a misunderstanding of the concept. "Moving" actually is a
> > "copy and mark for deletion".
>
> I understood that but it never occurred to me that the program would be
> written so that messages which had been marked for deletion would be
> available for future processing. Just for my edification, can you give
> me an example of when someone would want to do that? 

Marking mails of subset A as important and only moving mails of subset
B.


> If you know the people at Ximian you might let them know that this is
> very confusing for newcomers to their program. I know that making an
> experienced script programmer use a copy and then explicitly delete the
> message when they have done all the processing they want to do with it
> would be a pain for them but that would seem to be an appropriate trade
> off to avoid driving the large numbers of newbies completely bonkers.

As the hackers are reading this list too, you can do it on your own.
Just let the list know or file a bug at bugzilla.ximian.com.


> > That's another, but related issue: As "deleted" mails are still there,
> > other filters may trigger on them.
> >
> > As you don't want any other filter to be applied after mails are moved,
> > you have to tell Evolution it shall stop right there:
> >
> > In the Filter editor, add a "Stop Processing" action to any Filter, that
> > moves mails.
>
> Simple enough, although it doesn't apply in the case of the spam filter
> I notice that the default when someone creates a filter automatically
> from the mailing list is to NOT include the stop processing option.
> Considering that the quick automatically create a filter option isn't
> intended for someone who needs to write a complicated scripted filter it
> would seem better to default to including that rather than to default to
> not including it.
>
> Is there a specific manual or how to on the scripted filtering language?
> The help on this topic seemed to focus on simple scripts and didn't tell
> me much about when I might want to use the more advanced commands like
> stop processing.

Filtering really isn't a scripting language. But you probably can read
more on this in the users manuals, which should be available somewhere
on the www.ximian.com website.


> I do appreciate your patience and thoroughness in answering my question.
> Thanks.

No problem...

...guenther


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