[Opera-Linux] Follow-up - was: [opera mail] Using "Filters"?

[felix karpfen]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:12:22 +1000, Daniel Eckl <daniel.eckl at gmx.de> wrote:

> I don't think you wasted anybodys time. Thank you for telling us the
> solution! Very well appreciated!
>
> Best,
> Daniel
>
> On 18/04/2009, felix karpfen <fm_27.ka at webone.com.au> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:57:41 +1000, felix karpfen  
>> <fm_27.ka at webone.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have successfully installed Opera Mail in my Linux box and almost
>>> everything works fine.
>>>
>>> Everything except the "Filters".
>>
>> REMAINDER SNIPPED.
>>
>>
>> The filter routines started to work perfectly after ticking "marked
>> messages as filtered", shutting down "Opera" and re-opening.
>>
>> My apologies for wasting the time of "opera-linux" readers.
>>
>> Felix Karpfen
>>
I fear that you read more into my second posting than was actually said.

I merely recorded what had happened without pretending to understand what
I got.

And, of course, I could not replicate the finding!

Undetered, I tried again - and succeeded!

Instead of using *any* of the listed "Match" options, I deleted the one
supplied automatically and created my own from a regular expression e.g.

"From header"  "Matches regexp"  ^From:.*@iinet.net.au$.

I tested this by ticking "Filter existing messages".  And it worked
reasonably well. It filtered 231 stored messages and displayed 24 messages.

Only *one* of the displayed messages did not belong to the filtered set. A
much better outcome than my previous efforts.

To avoid ending up with more egg-on-my-face, I tried a second filter with
2 "From regexps". It filtered 80 of the 231 messages and included 3 that
did not belong to the filtered set.

So it looks as though this routine is reproducible.

Felix Karpfen

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