"Make filter" function

[ceva...@fastmail.fm]

I have happily used various filters in Eudora for several years, but there is one thing about the "make filter" function that I don't fully understand. I often use it to send unwanted or spam messages to the junk or trash folders. As an example, I received a spam message this morning, from the following entity:

Slash Your Home Payment" <ErinEr...@smtp1.maymaxcoat.com>

If I make a filter to send future messages in which the "from" line contains these words, does Eudora make it happen only if each & every word in the filter appears? Or does it maybe work if only some of the words (example - "home payment") appear? I often make 2 or more filters (looking for messages containing "home payment" and maymaxcoat, for example), and wonder if I'm doing too much work.

Thanks any helpful guidance!

Charles Varner, HHI, SC

[John H Meyers]

On 11/3/2012 7:27 PM, Charles Varner wrote:

> there is one thing about the "make filter" function that I don't fully understand.

> If I make a filter to send future messages in which the "from" line contains these words,
> does Eudora make it happen only if each & every word in the filter appears?

Poor Qualcomm -- someone put so much energy into writing such a
thorough Eudora manual, hyper-linked and searchable as a modern PDF file,
answering every conceivable question,
but apparently it gets about as much read
as the missing chapters of the "Dead Sea scrolls" :)

At least, when future archeologists dig up and decipher the content
of such lost antiquities, they will know all about how to use Eudora,
even if they don't have it :)

Starting on page 161 in:
<http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/windows/7.1/Eudora_71_User_Manual.pdf>

On page 168:
"Contains or doesn�t contain: If the specified header item
contains or does not contain the [exact] _text string_,
filter the message.
It allows other [header] text to surround the [matched] text string."

As you can see, the "Make Filter" dialog box has "contains"
as a fixed default match condition type, but to continue editing the filter,
you can click "Add Details" instead of "Create Filter,"
as page 165 also tells us.

When you "search," as opposed to "filter," a different set of conditions
is available, including "matches X1 query" if the X1 feature is enabled,
and, aside from one filter possibility in "matches regular expression,"
that's the only place where each word in a single query line
is independently matched, as the chapter on "X1 Search Queries"
tells us, starting on page 436.

Alas, poor manual:

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
[Thomas Gray 1716-1771]

<http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc>
<http://www.nysun.com/arts/gem-of-purest-ray-serene/37621/>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gray>

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