Filter question

Dave Saville pmmail@rpglink.com
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:42:01 +0100 (BST)


 On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:07:13 -0400, Bill McCarthy wrote:

Now its me thats being dense - Why does it have to be one filter.
Surely all one needs is a filter looking at "from" lines for incoming
and a second looking at "to" lines for outgoing?

>On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:13:50 -0400, Ken Diehl wrote:
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>>On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:56:20 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>>
>>>Pardon me if I'm being dense, but if you just sort using the From:
>>>header, what you desire will happen anyway won't it? The recipients
>>>will be in the To: or Cc: header and if you don't use that in the
>>>filter the destination of the mail will be ignored.
>>>
>>
>>To be brief I did not include all the possible senerios I might have 
>so
>>you're not being dense.  What you suggest is true but I want the mail
>>that I send to an individual to be sorted to their folders also thus
>>the inclusion of the To filter.  Maybe not the best way to organize
>>mail but I have topics for which I want to keep all correspondance to
>>that person in one place.
>
>How about something like (evaluation is right to left):
>
>  h.from="other_1" | h.from="diehlk@uncwil.edu" & h.to="other_1"
>  move to folder_1
>
>This, of course, has filter order problems if you send an email to 
>more than one person you track.
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Dave Saville
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