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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Filter question and praise
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-04-27 17:15:14
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John Aldrich wrote:
> 
<snip>
> What happens is if I have the "set identity"
> filter set to "any header" it just
> dumps all mail into the "inbox." I'd like
> to have it set the identity properly
> *and* sort the incoming mail...
<snip>

The reason for the behaviour you see is simple: Traversing the filter
list stops at the first pattern that matches, like in the following
pseudo-code:

filter = first filter;
while filter {
  if ( filter's pattern matches message ) {
    apply filter to message;
    return "filter foo matched";
  } else
    filter = next filter;   
}
return "no filter matched, so keep in Inbox";

The question is whether this is an intuitive behaviour or if all filters
that match the message should be applied to it. I think the current way
is the more intuitive. Else it would be very hard to constuct a filter
list that puts the two mails I get when someone replies to my posting to
a mailing list in two different folders. Impossible perhaps w/o a "stop
processing here" filter action.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <Marc@Mutz.com>     http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics

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