Subject: filtering on To address fails

From: Matthew Strait <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:54:58 -0600 (CST)

I use PINE 4.58.  I want to filter mail sent to
[email-masked] into a folder other than my INBOX.  I have
set up two filters for this: one that checks the To address and one that
checks the CC address.  The CC filter works fine, but the To filter
doesn't seem to have any effect.  Here is the relevant portion of the
filter dialog:

Nickname          = kernel

===================== CURRENT FOLDER CONDITIONS BEGIN HERE =====================

Current Folder Type =
            Set    Choose One
            ---  --------------------
            ( )  Any
            ( )  News
            ( )  Email
            (*)  Specific (Enter Incoming Nicknames or use ^T)
                 Folder List = INBOX

==================== FILTERED MESSAGE CONDITIONS BEGIN HERE ====================

To pattern        = [email-masked]
[...]
============================== ACTIONS BEGIN HERE ==============================

Filter Action   =
            Set    Choose One
            ---  --------------------
            ( )  Just Set Message Status
            ( )  Delete
            (*)  Move (Enter folder name(s) in primary collection, or use ^T)
                 Folder List = lkml

I have also attached my complete .pinerc file.

It doesn't seem to matter what order the filters are in or whether or not
other filters are present.  I have had several people look at this and
none of us can see anything wrong with my config, so I suspect that this
is a bug.  Any solution to this would be much appreciated.

-matthew

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:56:36 -0800 (PST)

If you would be willing to run

    pine -d verbose=9,imap=4

and send the resulting .pine-debug* file to [email-masked] we
could look into the problem. Point out the problem to us as clearly as
possible. I bet it has something to do with the way we are searching for
both To and Resent-To when you use the To pattern. Thanks.

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

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From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:27:47 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Matthew Strait wrote:
>checks the CC address.

Why don't you simply use a Recipient filter instead of two separate ones?

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