Subject: ? filtering based on patterns / restrict to selected folders

From: "plb.it" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:14:07 +0200 (CEST)

Hello altogether, and thank you so much for all the help 
that reached us upon our recent question. 
Filtering does work now indeed, 
so new questions arise :)

a. Is there possibly any way inside Pine 4.21 on Linux of 

	filtering different strings 
	in one set of filters 
e g
	[A-Z,a-z][A-Z,a-z][A-Z,a-z].[1-9][1-9][1-9][1-9]@
	would cover any mail addresses consisting of
	three letters, a dot, and four ciphers.
or
	wildcards such as ? or *

How would one accomplish this with Pine ? 
Seems to us a similar mechnanism might be 
useful in getting rid of some spam perhaps etc.

b. 
Having defined and enabled filtering with Pine, 
any folder opened will be filtered immediately.
Even elder collections of mail may thus be split 
and resorted according to newly made filtering rules. 
How could one possibly
- switch-off filtering temporarily or 
- restrict filtering 
  to special folders or 
  to INBOX only ?

TIA for any help so far and further on
kind regards, plbit ;-)

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:37:40 -0800 (PST)

*** plb.it ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) a. Is there possibly any way inside Pine 4.21 on Linux of 
:) 
:) 	filtering different strings 
:) 	in one set of filters 

No, Pine does not support regular expressions matching for filters, or 
search.

:) Having defined and enabled filtering with Pine, any folder opened
:) will be filtered immediately. Even elder collections of mail may
:) thus be split and resorted according to newly made filtering rules.  
:) How could one possibly
:)
:) - switch-off filtering temporarily or 

There's no way to do this, other than either deleting the filter or 
modifying it so that it won't match.

:) - restrict filtering to special folders or :)to INBOX only ?

That one you can. For every filter you make you have to set the following
setting

Current Folder Type =
            Set    Choose One
            ---  --------------------
            ( )  Any     
            ( )  News    
            ( )  Email   
            (*)  Specific
                 Folder List = INBOX                

where it says "Folder List", you can enter a comma separated list of
folders. 

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Eduardo
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