"Stop Processing" filter action?

[Lea Wiemann]

Hi,

I'd like to instruct Thunderbird to stop filtering a message once a
certain filter rule has matched. So I'm looking for something like
Evolution's "Stop Processing" action. Is there some way to do that?
(Perhaps in the current nightly builds, or is there some workaround I
could use?)

Background: I have several rules that tag my messages, and I don't want
a message to be assigned more than one tag. So once a tag rule has
matched, I don't want the remaining tag rules to be run.

Best wishes,

Lea

[Irwin Greenwald]

I believe if you use the "or" choice it will do exactly that.

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[clay]

Irwin Greenwald wrote:
> On 11/20/2007 3:05 PM, Lea Wiemann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to instruct Thunderbird to stop filtering a message once a
>> certain filter rule has matched. So I'm looking for something like
>> Evolution's "Stop Processing" action. Is there some way to do that?
>> (Perhaps in the current nightly builds, or is there some workaround I
>> could use?)
>>
>> Background: I have several rules that tag my messages, and I don't want
>> a message to be assigned more than one tag. So once a tag rule has
>> matched, I don't want the remaining tag rules to be run.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Lea
>
> I believe if you use the "or" choice it will do exactly that.
>

Maybe tag "and" move it to another folder (assuming the filters only run
on the inbox)

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[Lea Wiemann]

clay wrote:
> Irwin Greenwald wrote:

>> Lea Wiemann wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to instruct Thunderbird to stop filtering a message once a
>>> certain filter rule has matched. So I'm looking for something like
>>

>> I believe if you use the "or" choice it will do exactly that.

What "or" choice? "Match any of the following" doesn't seem to be
related to my problem...

> Maybe tag "and" move it to another folder (assuming the filters only run
> on the inbox)

That might work, but I really really want to keep my messages in the Inbox.

-- Lea

[Irwin Greenwald]

On 11/20/2007 Lea Wiemann wrote:
> What "or" choice? "Match any of the following" doesn't seem to be
> related to my problem...

Match any =="or"
Match all =="and"

With the match any selected, the first condition that is satisfied stops
the processing. Is this not happening for you?

[Lea Wiemann]

Irwin Greenwald wrote:

> Match any =="or"
> Match all =="and"
>
> With the match any selected, the first condition that is satisfied stops
> the processing.

It only stops processing of the current filter. What I'd like to do is
to stop processing of all following filters.

"Tag Work" filter: (if A or B, then tag as "work" and stop procesing)
"Tag Bugs" filter: (if C or D, then tag as "bugs")

I'd like any messages tagged as "work" to not be tagged as "bugs", even
if they match condition C or D, so I need a "stop processing" action.

-- Lea

[Lea Wiemann]

Lea Wiemann wrote:

> I'd like to instruct Thunderbird to stop filtering a message once a
> certain filter rule has matched. So I'm looking for something like
> Evolution's "Stop Processing" action.

Found something: The current nightlies have a "Stop Filter Execution"
action, which seems to do what I want.

(Too bad that some of my extensions -- keyconfig in particular -- are
not compatible with 3.0 yet, even after forcing them with Nightly Tester
Tools. I guess I'll give it another shot in a couple months.)

-- Lea

[Irwin Greenwald]

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