On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote: > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > describe below. > > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" > and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": > > $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety' ~/.mailfilterrc > DENY=^Subject:.*Test > ALLOW=^To:.*marssocietynewsletter > ALLOW=^Reply-To:.*marssociety > ALLOW=^Subject:.*marssociety > > I found out this morning that an email with the word "Contest" in > the Subject was deleted by mailfilter (according to my log). The > email also had "[marssocietynewsletter]" in the Subject and I > suspect, given the format of previous communications, also > "marssociety" in the Reply-To. The email therefore should have > passed two of my ALLOW rules. > > Shouldn't the ALLOW rule (allow all emails with "marssociety" in > the Subject) take precedence over the DENY rule (delete all > emails containing with the word or word part "test")?
man mailfilterrc says: "A message that matches any ALLOW rules will not be filtered or deleted." So it does look like a bug. You could test it by setting up a POP3 server on your own machine, putting mails with the headers you describe in the mailbox, and pointing mailfilter at it to see what happens. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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