Re: Debian mail filtering in Netscape 4.02
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Antonio M. Roldan wrote:
> Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > In order to deal with the high volume of traffic on this list, I just
> > > tried turning on the mail filtering in Netscape 4.02 (Solaris24) but it
> > > doesn't seem to do anything.
> > >
> > > Has anybody tried this?
> >
> > Well, to answer my own question, I'm having some success now setting the
> > Netscape mail filter to search for "debian" in the "body" rather than
> > any of the mail headers. Seems to work even if "debian" appears _only_
> > in the headers. IE what they call "body" may be "headers+body".
>
> I've just tried netscape mail filters and it works OK for me.
> I think the problem is you're trying to filter by searching in the "To"
> field and lots of mails bring "debian-user" in the "CC" field. So you must
> try the "To or CC" option that the menu offers to you.
Worse, I think I had both "To or "CC" and "From" filled in, not noticing
that the rules are connected with "and", not "or". Anyway, just having
"debian" in the body is still working fine. Thanks for the reply!
...RickM...
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