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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Is there an overall limit to kmails filters?
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-07-29 20:41:03
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On Monday 29 July 2002 16:25, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I've just run into an oddity.  Using the filters pulldown to add
> filters against the ever increasing flood of spam, where I usually
> add new ones at the top of the list, I've just now made 2 tries to
> add another ruleset.  It enters, you can apply it and quit, but it
> not there the next time you do the pulldown, nor does it work when
> a message it appies to is highlighted and a ctrl-j issued.  But
> I've found I can scan down the list, find a filter which isn't full
> and add to its ruleset just fine.
>
> So I'm wondering if there is an overall count or size limit to the
> filters it saves?

No. But incomplete filters are silently removed when you exit the filter 
config dialog.

> I did have some pretty decent filters setup under pop filters, but
> for some unk reason a few days after I built kde-3.0.2, they mostly
> disappeared, and the next time I called them to make another
> addition they had all disappeared.  So I quit using them as it
> seems it had to do a full message download, wasting a lot of time
> before it checked each message, and decided to kill it or keep it.
> Is this disappearing pop filter list a known bug or ??

No. I can't remember a bug report for this. The pop filters don't 
download the whole messages (this would be pointless). They only 
download the headers of all messages. After all headers have been 
retrieved the headers are checked for matching pop filters.

Regards,
Ingo

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