Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / December 2007

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:57:56 -0600:

JHM

Peter Ceresole

The reason I asked is that I've read opinions in this group
that only the logging function can tell you what *did* occur,
while this feature *predicts* what filters *would* act, e.g.:

Author "S.T."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.eudora.mac/msg/ba9222383bfa67d6
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.eudora.mac/msg/bc648d07f85745d7

Author "B.F."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.eudora.mac/msg/02ae3a8bc21bbc7e

Based on what I said earlier,
it appears to me that although one could identify which filters
*might* act upon any as yet unfiltered message, you would
have to also then consider under which circumstances (receiving,
sending, or manual filtering) the filtering *would* be occurring,
to more precisely know which filters *will* actually act at all.

The fact that you can change filters (and even edit some messages)
after filtering has already occurred, and that filter names
can also apparently be duplicated, also cast a bit of doubt
on being able to identify current filters in the filters window,
based on past history, although you could check any detailed log
to see a "trace" of what had happened in the past.

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No it isn't and never has been.

The only reason there is still confusion about this is that typically
people ask for a filter history, and this filter 'prediction' feature of
Eudora is the closest thing to what they asked for (or, more often, it
is exactly what they actually meant to ask for :)).

Then try it ;)

Select any message. Create a new filter that would have *a*ffected that
message ("if Subject ==" or something like that), put it at the top of
your filters list. Now with the message selected or open, open the
Filters Window while the Shift key's down. You'll see your newly created
filter selected, even though you know it didn't yet exist when you
received that message, 8 yeara ago.