JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:59:14 -0700:
> Well, thanks for the info. That does not change the fact that I'd > still be interested in filtering on the basis of a missing field in the > header. Do you know how to do so? I had a reply to this but couldn't get it out due to the 441s on gmane. They were gone earlier, let's see if I can still get replies out, and if I can find that reply... I'm not /sure/ this will work, but it /should/ work, tho /only/ for headers normally in the overview. I'd suggest trying it first with a score such as 3657 or something equally strange, to ensure it's working, before you try setting ignore. For the header in question, set it (directly in the scorefile) to: ~Header: .* The ~ negates the match. .* is regex for "any character" (.), zero or more times (*). There doesn't seem to be a way to setup a negative match regex directly from pan, thus the direct scorefile edit. However, you could /start/ in pan, matching regex .*, and then just add the ~ to the entry it creates in the scorefile. If that doesn't work, try .+ (+ is one or more times) instead of .*. The problem however, is that pan runs the scoring algorithm on the overview, not on the entire post. Technically, a news client does not fetch "headers", but rather "overviews", containing in general only those headers necessary to display and thread the listing in the overview (wrongly, header) pane, and to actually download the message if requested. Headers not necessary for that, all the X- headers (which are considered unofficial) and headers such as nntp-posting-host, are not generally found in the overview (tho a server may optionally provide additional headers in the overview if they wish to). Since pan doesn't rerun its scoring after actual message download, anything that's not found in the overview, doesn't count. Thus, it's unfortunately impossible to score on them. This has been a pet peeve of mine since before pan even had scoring, when it was still (watch/normal/ignore) filters. I'd have personally rather seen the ability to refilter after download added, since while one doesn't avoid the download then, one can still avoid actually reading the post if desired, than scoring, but I'm not the one writing the code, and Charles obviously had other priorities, so... When I originally bugged it, the bug was set to target "bluesky", which means in effect, "It'd be nice, someday, but don't hold your breath. Got a patch?" Since I'm not a coder, other than a bit of bash, etc, I can't do the patch thing, which means I'm left waiting on someone else to find it equally irritating, and that's not happened yet, so... So keep it to the relatively narrow list of overview headers, and see if the ~Header: .* works. Oh, well, pan's still the best option I've found, even without that feature, which I'd consider very useful. Now, if gmane hasn't returned to 441s... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
