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From: keith@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Keith Manley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: My filter is busted...
Message-ID: <9140002@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 91 16:16:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.184833.15721@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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/ hpfcso:comp.mail.elm / germuska@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Joe Germuska) / 11:48 am  Mar 16, 1991 /
My .elm filter works fine for the first 6 or 7 rules I have, but all the
rules I've added since I first created it fail!  Is there a limit to the
number of rules one can use?  Or did I not type them correctly, although
they look identical to the ones that do work...  Oh, heck, I may as well
include my filter in this post to make it more clear:
----- ----- -----
# $HOME/.elm/filter-fules
#
# Filter rules for the Elm Filter Program.
# Remember, Order counts
# rule 1
if (to "gabriel-request") then save "/home/u5/germuska/Mail/admin"
# rule 2
if (to "gabriel") then savecopy "/home/u5/germuska/archives/digest.%d.%m.%y"
#rule 3
if (to "freaks") then save "/home/u5/germuska/Mail/marillion"
#rule 4
if (to "flat-fields") then save "/home/u5/germuska/Mail/bauhaus"
# rule 5
if (to "other-voices") then save "/home/u5/germuska/Mail/cure"
# rule 6
if (to "ceremony") then save "/home/u5/germuska/Mail/joydiv"
# rule 7
if (to "tape-heads") then save "/home/u5/germuska/Mail/dead"
*# rule 8
*if (to = "info-hedges") then save "home/u5/germuska/Mail/hedges"
*# rule 9
*if (to = "police") then save "home/u5/germuska/Mail/police"
*# rule 10
*if (subject = "glastonbury") then save "home/u5/germuska/Mail/curetree"
*# rule 11
*if (to = "4AD-L" then save "home/u5/germuska/Mail/4ad"

*=doesn't work properly

The last 4 rules "work" in that, when the filter-summary comes up, it says
that the mail was saved in the appropriate folders, but when the errors
come up, it says it couldn't save to those folders!  Anyone have any ideas?

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