| Subject: | Possible problems with certain types of filters |
| Date: | Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:55:10 +0300 |
| To: | bug-Mail-Google-Procmailrc [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Ana Sabina Uban <ana.uban [...] gmail.com> |
I tried your code and worked great for me, I was able to classify my emails
into directories corresponding to the gmail labels; with a couple of
exceptions (some of these may originate in procmail itself and not your
module, but here they are):
- A 'hasWord' type filter (a filter that groups emails that contain a
certain word. This filter doesn't seem to have a corresponding entry in the
generated .rc file. In the exported .xml file, this filter looks something
like
<apps:property name='hasTheWord'
value='list:(<someemailaddress>)'/>
<apps:property name='label' value='somelabel'/>
- A filter where the label contains a space in its name. This filter does
have an entry in the .rc file that looks good, but procmail doesn't seem to
be able to find the correct directory to send the emails to because of the
space in the name. The correct directories are also created by create.sh,
they just end up empty. Here's how it looks in the .xml and .rc file
respectively:
<apps:property name='from' value='someone@something.com'/>
<apps:property name='label' value='Labelword1 Labelword2'/>
:0:
* ^From:.*someone@something.com.*
/home/someuser/mails/LabelWord1 Labelword2
The classification seems to work, for example, if I enclose the directory
names in the .rc file in quotes.
- There's one last case, that I didn't investigate properly, but this is
what I assume is happening: if there are 2 consecutive filters with the
same rule (e.g.: from the same sender), but associated with 2 different
labels (one label for each of the filters), the second one will be ignored
(more specifically, the second label is a nested one). Again, the .rc file
looks good in this case, but the mails corresponding to the second filter
are not classified correctly. I'm assuming this is a procmail thing though,
and in the end it was probably a mistake in my original gmail filters to do
this in the first place.
Thanks for looking into these and please excuse the lack of thoroughness in
some of these reports.