Subject: Filter weirdness in Pine 4.33

From: Walt Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:00:55 -0500 (EST)

Is there a limit on the number of filtering rules you can have?  I have
nine defined and they're all there in .pinerc but when I actually go to
the filtering rules list screen, the last one doesn't show.  However, when
I compose new mail (such as this message) I'm always prompted with a
question as to whether I want to use that rule.  In other words, it
appears to be active but doesn't show up in the setup display.
Physically, the missing rule appears immediately below the last rule that
does display and if I try to cursor down or hit the space bar when that
particular rule is highlighted, I'm told that I'm at the bottom.  In other
words, only 8 rules will display, seemingly, even though I have 9 created.

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Walt Smith - Raleigh, NC
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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:06:22 +0000 (GMT)

I have seen a lot of oddities to do with the length of the PINERC (which
contains filters and the like). When something gets too big (I am unsure
of what) things get dropped off the end; I have seen this with various
rules and not just filters.

I just worked around it by having fewer.

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Walt Smith wrote:

:>Is there a limit on the number of filtering rules you can have?  I have
:>nine defined and they're all there in .pinerc but when I actually go to
:>the filtering rules list screen, the last one doesn't show.  However, when
:>I compose new mail (such as this message) I'm always prompted with a
:>question as to whether I want to use that rule.  In other words, it
:>appears to be active but doesn't show up in the setup display.
:>Physically, the missing rule appears immediately below the last rule that
:>does display and if I try to cursor down or hit the space bar when that
:>particular rule is highlighted, I'm told that I'm at the bottom.  In other
:>words, only 8 rules will display, seemingly, even though I have 9 created.
:>
:>

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:36:50 -0800 (PST)

I'm not aware of any length limits or number of filters limits. You should
be able to have as many as you want. Would you mind sending your .pinerc
file? How about a debug file produced by running pine -d9? Send to
[email-masked]. Thanks.

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Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle