filter question

[Trevor Smith]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:26:40 -0400, Ken Diehl wrote:

>Got a filter question here.  I am trying to filter incoming mail from
>students in one of my classes into a course folder.  Rather than enter
>their email addresses one by one into the filter, I am wondering if I
>can use the $ag.groupname$ variable for this purpose?
>
>I tried the following:
>
>(header.from="$ag.Materials$")
>
>but that didn't work.  Is what I am trying to do not doable or is my
>syntax bad.  TIA.

Your syntax would be bad, if this feature worked. Using quotation
marks around $ag.Materials$ will cause PMMail to search for those
exact characters in the From: address.

However, even without the quotation marks, this does not work (as I
think you must have discovered already). I get a syntax error every
time I use any variation of $ag.name$ or just ag.name on the right
side of an expression -- CONTRARY TO WHAT THE ONLINE HELP SAYS.

Can anyone confirm this? Is this an OS/2 only problem? I think it's
just broken.


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