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McAlly
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 Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:27 am Post subject: filter works on friens e-mail (bug) |
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A e-mail I got from somebody who is in my friends list contain the word
'specialisatie' wich contain 'cialis' and is in my filter list.
Now this is mail is in green and NOT marked for deletion, but in the column 'status' it's mark 'filtered' in red instead of 'friend'
That is the bug part
Now a question.
Can I prevent that the word 'specialisatie' trigger the filter, but still filter on 'cialis'? |
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rogerw
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:57 am Post subject: Re: filter works on friens e-mail (bug) |
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I won't speak to the filter construction - but you've not found a bug.
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Now this is mail is in green and NOT marked for deletion, but in the column 'status' it's mark 'filtered' in red instead of 'friend'
That is the bug part |
It is quite possible for an individual mail to 'match' in several tools. The filters are evaluated - even if an email matches the 'friends' list - because individual filters can be set to take precedence over the friends list.
Even if you've not set the filter to act instead of the firend's list action, the 'name' you've set into the filter for status line display can appear.
You'll just have to get used to MW's choice of what to display when an email matches several tools. It can be a bit confusing at first.
To see ALL the matches for a particular email - hover your cursor over the status field of that email and you'll get a balloon help that lists all the matches.
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McAlly
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:26 am Post subject: Re: filter works on friens e-mail (bug) |
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| rogerw wrote: |
It is quite possible for an individual mail to 'match' in several tools. The filters are evaluated - even if an email matches the 'friends' list - because individual filters can be set to take precedence over the friends list. |
But why is the filter been parcial executed?
I think if you don't mark the filter to take precedence over friends list, it should not even been partial executed.
Or do I miss something? 
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rogerw
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:52 am Post subject: Re: filter works on friens e-mail (bug) |
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| McAlly wrote: |
I think if you don't mark the filter to take precedence over friends list, it should not even been partial executed.
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Clearly, that's not what the people who wrote the code thought.
I have no problem with the way it works...in fact I use it to my advantage: I have several filters with no actions, which exist only to put labels in the status field. Once those labels are there, I can sort the mail on the status column so that I can group emails and process them accordingly.
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Ikeb
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Whereas given the current priority scheme, I would prefer to have the action be determined by the first filter match. Not that it matters a great deal. It is much more important that FireTrust allow actions to be determined by the selective combination of multiple filter matches.
Also, I'm not sure that's what McAlly means by 'partially executed'. Or has Roger interpreted correctly McAlly?
BTW McAlly, regarding your word matches -- ensure that the word has to be preceeded by a non-alpha character and you won't get matches where that letter pattern is found within a larger word.
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McAlly
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, I'm not sure that's what McAlly means by 'partially executed'. Or has Roger interpreted correctly McAlly? |
Well, my filter say it will (beside changing the label) delete & blacklist the mail. But it only change the label, from there 'partially'.
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AlphaCentauri
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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The answer to the false positive is to include a white space (space bar, beginning of line) before "cialis" Lots of spams contain the word "specialist"
So your filter should be for "\scialis" (the \s is case sensitive!) |
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