Filter help

Michael T. Davis

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Apr 27, 2012, 10:41:21 AM4/27/12

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I'm running v7.1.0.9 paid. I would like to create a manual filter
based on a customized header that looks for a string within that header,
and moves the message to another mailbox if found.

In the Filters dialog, I typed in the name of the header (since it's
not standard), X-Spam-Warning, into the Header field. I am looking for
instances of this when it "contains"...

defunct domain: jdoe@

For an action, I have (only) set it to move the matching message(s) to a
folder named "defunct." The filter is set exclusively as a manual filter. It
is also my only filter.

To test, I select all the messages in my In mailbox, then click on
"Filter Messages" from the Special menu. I see a status window appear that
tells me the the messages I have selected are being processed. At the end,
my In box is left exactly as it started, even though I know I have at least
one message that should match the filter. Also, the Filter Report is empty.
...Any ideas what I'm missing?

Thanks,
Mike

Ajo Wissink

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Apr 27, 2012, 11:44:32 AM4/27/12

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Perhaps Eudora could not find that header because you typed a
non-existing one. Headers end with a colon, so your's should have
read X-Spam-Warning: instead of X-Spam-Warning

Michael T. Davis

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Apr 27, 2012, 3:43:47 PM4/27/12

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In article <qiflp75hmrp9j4jmq...@4ax.com>, Ajo Wissink

I specified it w/o the colon, since I'm trying to develop the same
filter under Thunberbird, where the colon must not be specified. I see from
the headers that Eudora does know about that the colon is included, so I
tacked it onto the header name. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to matter.
The filter is still being "ignored" and the filter report remains empty.

Regards,
Mike

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Ajo Wissink

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Apr 27, 2012, 6:32:06 PM4/27/12

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC), DAV...@ecr6.ohio-state.edu

When filters don't work it's often because of typos. Copying and
pasting is preferable. Often an added space is enough to cause
failure.

Michael T. Davis

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Apr 30, 2012, 6:29:50 PM4/30/12

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In article <7e7mp7lr9usc55jrl...@4ax.com>, Ajo Wissink

I did a little more testing, and it looks like Eudora doesn't deal
with a "wrapped" header line properly. In the example, above, the specific
message header content looks like this:

X-Spam-Warning: ... defunct domain:
jdoe@...

Is there a trick to specifying the content of the header in a filter to
accommodate for this potential?

Regards,
Mike

Michael T. Davis

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May 1, 2012, 11:13:14 AM5/1/12

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>[...]

It turns out Eudora's filtering mechanism does see header content
beyond that first line break. I couldn't find any information on how to
match a line break with a "contains" clause, so I used "matches regexp (case
insensitive)" as follows:

" defunct domain:[^[:alpha:]]{1,3}jdoe@"

(The quotes are to delimit the content I used for readability here; they're
not part of the actual match string.) I wasn't sure if Eudora used the
line break as defined by the RFCs (CR-LF), or only one of those, so the
"1" represents the space character that will always exist between the end
of "domain:" in the case where the line is not folded (to use the RFC
terminology) and the user name, and the "3" includes the space plus the
RFC-defined line break or a single-character line break (since the second
value represents a maximum, not an absolute).

...Now to tackle this in Thunderbird.

Cheers,
Mike

P.S. The RFC in question is 5322, which obsoletes 2822, which obsoletes 822.