canadadianfleece

What's wrong with my Eudora 5.x filtering?

1) I set up Eudora filters to trap any mail addressed
TO: FOO
Yet, to let proceed any mail addressed to my login (ie "bar").

2) I select messages and press <control + j> (ie Special, Filter
Messages)
and nothing happens.

3) I loosen up the filter tremendously, and still nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong?

Here is the filters.pce for the desired step 2 above:
3
rule To:FOO
transfer filtered.fol\foo.mbx
incoming
manual
header To:
verb is
value FOO
conjunction and
header «Any Recipient»
verb !is
value bar

Here is the filters.pce for the looser step 3 above:
3
rule To:FOO
transfer filtered.fol\foo.mbx
incoming
manual
header To:
verb contains
value FOO
conjunction and
header «Any Recipient»
verb !contains
value bar

katrina knight

You want to filter mail addressed to "foo", but not if it is also
addressed to "bar"? Is "foo" a subset of "bar" or a different address altogether?

This filter is looking for messages where the To: header is exactly "foo"
and neither to: nor cc: is exactly "bar". Obviously, if to: is "foo", it
can't also be "bar", so what you're really looking for is the to: header
being "foo" and cc: not being "bar".

In all probability, the fact that you're using "is" is the problem with
this one. Most likely, there are more characters in the to: header than just "foo".


This one is looking for the text "foo" being anywhere in the to: header
and "bar" not being in to: or cc:. It isn't obvious what is wrong with
that. Seeing some example headers and knowing what "foo" and "bar"
actually are might make that obvious, or it might not.

Do you have other filters after these? If so, that might be the problem.
There's no "skip rest", so the messages are going to go on through the
rest of your filters whether or not they match these ones. If you have
another filter that puts those messages back in the inbox, then it will
appear that nothing is happening when you filter them.

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Katrina