[sylpheed:36515] Re: Mail filters don't work reliably

[Keith Bainbridge]

G'day all

If this only happens when sylpheed starts, what happens if you turn off the
'Download mail at start up' option?



Keith Bainbridge

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On 25 Feb 2017 11:40, "Merlin Büge" <merlinbuege at web.de> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:27:36 -0600
Rich Coe <rcoe at wi.rr.com> wrote:

<snip>

> I agree that the easiest way to diagnose the issues is to look at the
> debug messages when it happens.

I'm running Sylpheed now from CLI via 'sylpheed --debug > sylpheed.log'
and waiting for the issue to appear again.


> I have some early created rules that matched only {From}/{To}/{CC}
> based on username like your debian-user.  All my later rules, which I
> may have created with the 'create filter rule Automattically'
> feature, and then edited, include the full email address: {From}
> {contains}  someuser at some.host.com This also prevents filtering out
> false postives if some one has 'debian-user' as some other part of
> the {From} or {To} field.

Good idea.


> Another nice thing about the 'create Automattically' feature is when
> you pick a different field than the one the tool picked, it
> auto-fills the value in.  A number of lists use the {List-Id}
> attribute, which makes it nicer to match from the mail list than
> listing multiple entries for {To}, {CC}, {From}, etc.

Thanks a lot. I didn't know about the 'List-Id' header field. After
diagnosing the current filter issue I'll use that.


> Another thing to try is to look at the failing message with the
> View>Message Source option, and also pull up the filter rules from
> {sylpheed-home}/filter.xml and see if any of the rules from the top
> down match something before your 'debian-user' or some other rule.

I did that, and -- despite my rules being set up kind of sloppy, e.g.
'someuser' instead of 'someuser at domain.tld' -- the filter logic itself
seems not to be the problem here.

I'm curious about what the debug log will give.


Regards,

Merlin



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Merlin Büge <merlinbuege at web.de>