[Alpine-info] a message filter is not running

[Mark Crispin]

What messages do you expect to be moved?  Alpine-alpha list traffic 
generally does not have a From: header of
 	From: alpine-alpha-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu

Did you confuse the SMTP Return-Path with the From?

In addition, IBM Domino is not high on the list of good IMAP servers, so 
it can indeed be a cause of some of your problems.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jacob Wegelin wrote:

>

> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:

>

>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Jacob Wegelin wrote:

>>> SEARCH query is not understandable

>>> Does this refer to my filters? If so, what's wrong with them?

>> 

>> Unfortunately, this message comes from your IMAP server, and it means that 

>> it can not understand the IMAP SEARCH command that Alpine built to execute 

>> your filters.

>> 

>> This is not a problem with your filters; it is a problem with the IMAP 

>> server.  The IMAP specification requires (I know; I wrote it) that serves 

>> handle arbitrarily complex SEARCH commands.  The open source IMAP server 

>> free implementations, such as UW, Cyrus, and Dovecot, all comply with this 

>> requirement.

>> 

>> Sadly, in the IMAP server world, the quality of what you get is inversely 

>> proportional to what you pay for it.

>> 

>> The only workaround that I can suggest is to try to simplify your filters 

>> until you arrive at something that your server can accept.

>

> Thank you for this response. I now have given up on the complicated filters 

> and have a single, much simpler filter. But it still is not doing what I 

> hoped.  The relevant part of my .pinerc is:

>

> patterns-filters2=LIT:pattern="/NICK=alpinealpha/FROM=alpine-alpha-request/FLDTYPE=SPEC/FOLDER=INBOX" 

> action="/FILTER=1/FOLDER=alpine/NOKILL=1"

>

> I hoped that this would move any email with the following header field:

>

> From: alpine-alpha-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu

>

> to my alpine folder.  But it doesn't.  I still have to manually move the 

> emails.  Is this a failure of our local IMAP server (IBM Domino) or have I 

> specified the filter wrong?

>

> Thanks for any info

>

> Jacob Wegelin

>

>


-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.