On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:06 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > But it is still a little counter-intuitive that processing with other > filters continues in some circumstances and not in others. > > Previously I have always depended on the order of the filters to > determine what happens and the first match stopped any further > processing. (That was when I was using mozilla mail.) > Processing always continues unless stopped, that's the general rule. This allows you to build pretty complex rules which "first match stops" would not permit. This is pretty common; for example, Eudora in Windows has used that system for years. It may take a little getting used to, but I think you'll find it a better way to do filtering overall. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
