[Alpine-info] a message filter is not running

[Mark Crispin]

Oh.  You get the digest.  That explains it.

Try setting your From pattern match to just "alpine-alpha-request" and see 
if that helps.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jacob Wegelin wrote:

>

>

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:

>

>> 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?

>

> I don't think so. Every day I get an email with alpine-alpha-request in the 

> From: field. For instance, today an email came in with the following fields:

>

> Subject: Alpine-alpha Digest, Vol 18, Issue 23

> To: alpine-alpha at u.washington.edu

> Reply-To: alpine-alpha at u.washington.edu

> Sender: alpine-alpha-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu

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

>

>> 

>> 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 --

>> 

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>> Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.

>> Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

>> 

>


-- Mark --

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