Filters not catching all messages

14 ár síðan • updated by 14 ár síðan • 3

I set up a filter which goes exactly like this:

"ignore updates that match any of the following rules:(...)item title contains Hardware US: Deals(...)"

However e-mail titles that match that pattern still go through. Perhaps I should quote the phrase?

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The filters will do a case insensitive match with whatever string you provide - but it's reasonably naive at present, so if trying to phrase match things like double spaces, line breaks, HTML markup etc. could cause a miss.

Can you drop me the feed URL so I can test against it?

14 ár síðan

I've examined particular instances of the issues closer and I believe the solution is that the filter is being applied before the title of the feed is prepended onto the mail subject. I was including the title of the feed in the filter, so obviously my approach failed.

Now, this makes the issue non-existent but that highlights some need into adding "begins with..."/"ends with.." markers (I was including the title so to make sure only "Deals" as the subject's first word is catched). Otherwise, sorry for the trouble.

14 ár síðan

Ah yes, the filters match against the item title alone, rather than the generated "{feed_title}: {item_title}" email subject string. Another one to add to the help text clarification task I think!

We're looking into using regular expressions for the next iteration of filters, which would allow string start/end anchors along with all manner of powerful string matching. And no worries :)

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