From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse   
      
   On 13/08/2025 2:45 am, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   
   > NFN Smith wrote:   
   >> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>>> Do Filters not filter on the server portion ... or do I have to   
   >>>>> have the username before the '@' in the Filter name as well as the   
   >>>>> server name??   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Filters default to "Match all of the following" although the only   
   >>>> times I have ever kept that setting is when there was only one line   
   >>>> in the filter.  You *do* have "Match any of the following" set?   
   >>>   
   >>> Bingo. I had the Filters screen set to the Default "Match all of the   
   >>> following" which, initially, worked ..... but, now that one of the   
   >>> three conditions has been changed, the filter cannot work.   
   >>>   
   >>> I've adjusted it to "Match any of the following".   
   >>>   
   >>> Let's see if that fixes things. ;-P (maybe not tonight, as I've   
   >>> already downloaded the message numbers, but let's see!!)   
   >>   
   >> I've found that to be the most common problem with filters that have   
   >> more than one condition.  The default setting is to match all, and   
   >> it's easy to miss the need to change to matching any, and as a result,   
   >> rules that are too strict and don't identify what you're looking for.   
   >>   
   >> Smith   
   >   
   > Worse than that, my conditions tend to be along the lines of: Sender = X   
   > .or. Sender = Y   
   > Make that .or. an .and. and the test is guaranteed to fail.   
      
   Well, of course that would fail cause it could ONLY have been sent by   
   the ONE sender in any one instance. The .OR. would/should be O.K., but   
   the .AND. ..... automatic failure.   
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