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T.Alan Kraus · 2011-07-19T03:39:10+00:00

Does anyone know how to filter posts that have multiple newsgroups besides metalworking, in Thunderbirdthanks, Id like to go back to reading metal related posts.

Jul 19, 2011 26 Replies

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Steve Ackman 15 years ago

Seamonkey 2.0.11 definitely does NOT work the same as Thunderbird 5.0. I played with it for a bit, and never could figure out how to get the filters to run on the existing message base.

Figured, "Hey, the search function will use the same RE as the filter, so I'll play around with searching." Out of the 500 messages I put there, it found THREE that met the criteria, but there were definitely more than that.

Best recommendation I can think of is to try Seamonkey 2.2 and see if the filtering has been updated the same as Thunderbird 5.0.

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DoN. Nichols 15 years ago

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That should be "Newsgroups", not the singular "Newsgroup". There is no singular "Newgroup" header.

Good Luck, DoN.

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Bill 15 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know there was a new version!

Bill

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Bill 15 years ago

Thank you. Neither is giving me what I want yet. I'll try a newer version of the software.

Bill

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Bill 15 years ago

The newer version (2.2) of SeaMonkey seems to be working better! Thanks!

Bill

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James Waldby 15 years ago

As DoN noted, 'Newgroup' is not a header name, 'Newsgroups' is. Next line is an example header. Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking

I use Pan rather than Seamonkey or Thunderbird for newsreading, but tried some newsgroup filter experiments with Thunderbird. Under Tools it has option 'Run Filters on Selected Messages', which applies filters to currently selected messages. If Seamonkey has that option, just press ctrl-A to select all messages on the articles tab before using it.

The Thunderbird option 'Run Filters on Folder' is grayed-out and not available when the articles-list tab is selected. Filtering selected messages on the articles tab works ok, except that Thunderbird 3.6 only filters on Subject, From, and Date headers or on message size. It does not support filtering on the Newsgroups header or on message content.

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