Test Filter right click option

Monday 11th of May 2009 6:05am

Testing complex filters can be time consuming and there can be a lot of trial and error work, especially when regular expressions are involved.

It would be useful to be able to run a filter against that one pesky message that you can't get to match, and see what's going on inside. Right clicking a message could show a "Test Filter" option. Selecting it would display a list of available filters.

Selecting a filter would run the filter against the message and display the results. This would include each rule in the filter, whether it was matched or not, and the result for the filter as a whole.

For RegEx rules, showing the text that was matched would be useful, for those situations where the rule is too greedy (matching too much).

created | by Kurtgs

Kurtgs

Monday 11th of May 2009 6:06am

I meant to add, this is not a "gotta have" for the first release. ;-)

Pamclark

Tuesday 8th of December 2009 8:02am

MANY MANY times I wonder what filter is marking a particular email. I don't want to lose good mail so it needs to be kept simple and accurate. Sometimes for the life of me I can't think of why the mail got filtered or passed through. If it's marked, I'd like to see which of my filters did it. Wow, thanks!

Gast

Tuesday 8th of June 2010 8:39am

Me again, months later. I would really like to SEE what filter is applying to the filtered mail. Then I could figure out WHY the filter is working or not working as I desire. Thanks.

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