[sylpheed:36516] Re: Mail filters don't work reliably

[Merlin Büge]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:02:47 +1100
Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau at gmail.com> wrote:

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

For me, it does not only happen when sylpheed starts up. Also, I don't
have the option 'Download mail at start up' enabled (and never had).

But I have sylpheed checking for new mails every 5 minutes. I will try
to disable that option once I reproduced the issue.


Regards,

Merlin


> 
> 
> 
> Keith Bainbridge
> 
> 0447667468
> 
> keithrbau at gmail.com
> 
> Sent from my APad
> 
> 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>


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