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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Is there an overall limit to kmails filters?
From:       Gene Heskett <gene_heskett () iolinc ! net>
Date:       2002-07-30 2:24:28
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On Monday 29 July 2002 16:41, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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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.

By incomplete, like I maybe forgot to tell it what to do with the 
results of the filter?  Thats a possibility, but I tried it twice, 
on two different trigger phrases, with mark as read, and moveto 
junquemail as the operations to perform.  Thats my std procedure. I 
may have forgotten it once, but twice?

>> 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.

Maybe we should enter one for that.  I would have blamed it on a 
file format incompatibility if it had happened when I switched to 
kde-3.0.2, but it was 2 or 3 days later that the whole pop filter 
list just went poof.

> 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.

Aha, thats why it seems so slow.  I used to use a util called poppy 
on an amiga, and ISTR it checked its rules after downloading each 
line of the header.  On a 25mhz 68040, it ran (subjectively of 
course) at least as fast as this 'get the whole header' method 
because it could find an applicable rule most of the time before it 
had grabbed the whole header.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.09% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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