Need help creating a filter

[odedp]

I want to file incoming emails in a crtain folder if:
header doesn't contain "aaa" and (header doesn't contain) "bbb".
How can I do this?

Thanks,
Oded.

[dbowdley]

At the moment this isn't possible as you can only filter on one filter criterion at a time. The Runbox filter system is in need of an upgrade to allow the sort of filtering you want to do. This has been discussed by the team so we are aware of this.

Dave

[odedp]

Originally Posted by dbowdley

At the moment this isn't possible as you can only filter on one filter criterion at a time. The Runbox filter system is in need of an upgrade to allow the sort of filtering you want to do. This has been discussed by the team so we are aware of this.

Dave

Any idea when the Runbox filter system will be upgraded?

[Geir]

Oded,

You might be able to work around this by first adding a filter that saves messages where the header contains "aaa" to Inbox (or some other folder), letting only messages where the header doesn't contain "aaa" through to the next level, and then adding a filter that saves messages where header doesn't contain "bbb" to the desired folder.

- Geir

[odedp]

Originally Posted by Geir

Oded,

You might be able to work around this by first adding a filter that saves messages where the header contains "aaa" to Inbox (or some other folder), letting only messages where the header doesn't contain "aaa" through to the next level, and then adding a filter that saves messages where header doesn't contain "bbb" to the desired folder.

- Geir

That's exactly what I've been doing few minutes ago
Still it would be nice to have this feature available.

Thank you Geir for your help. Much appreciated.

Oded.

[dbowdley]

Yep, Geir's suggestion could work. It depends if you then need to filter messages that do contain "aaa" any further.

There isn't a date for a filter upgrade that I am aware of. Geir is the one to ask about that sort of thing

Dave

[Jacinto]

Although not a Runbox native filter, I've used "IMAPfilter" as an external filter for some very sophisticated filtering.

<https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter>

A bit of a steep learning curve, but well worth it.

You can do a lot more with this external filter than with most E-Mail hosting providers' filters.

[Jacinto]

Forgot to say, Unix/Linux only (may work under Cygwin).

[Quincy_G]

I also have the problem that I need two filter criteria

First: Emails for alias "xxx@example.com" AND subject contains "Example"

How can i filter this?

Is this problem at fastmail the same? I also can't find a second criteria...

[Jacinto]

Originally Posted by Quincy_G

I also have the problem that I need two filter criteria

First: Emails for alias "xxx@example.com" AND subject contains "Example"

How can i filter this?

Is this problem at fastmail the same? I also can't find a second criteria...

Fastmail uses the Sieve filtering language.

Not sure about the gui. However, with a paid account you can write your own script by hand and include two "criteria."

Your example would roughly be (not tested):

-----------------------------------------------------------
if allof(
header :contains "to" "xxx@example.com",
header :contains "subject" "Example"
) {
[your desired action would go here];
stop;
}
-----------------------------------------------------------

Give it a whirl, you'll be surprised what you can do with it.

[Quincy_G]

Hmm, i see in the beta webmail is there a possibilty to put a custom sieve in. I will try this, thanks, first must read some infos about sieve :-)