Re: Trouble with filters

[Andreas Schmidt <andy space wh1 tu-dresden de>]

Hi, Peter,


On 2005.05.07 03:06, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 05/06/2005 01:46:56 PM, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> > Looks to me like balsa doesn't like spaces in filter names anymore.  
> > Also, it could be that spaces in the names of mailbox-files might be  
> > problematic. How about using quotes in the config-file, i.e.
> > 	Action-string="file:///mail/Lists/Debian/Debian Curiosa"
> > instead of
> > 	Action-string=file:///mail/Lists/Debian/Debian Curiosa
>
> In principle, Balsa can handle spaces in both filter names and file  
> names.  But those "Invalid filters" messages show that it wasn't  
> working.  The "MailboxFilters=..." line has a space-separated list of  
> filter names, and spaces in filter names should be escaped ("\\" in  
> GnomeConfig, used for gtk < 2.6, and "\" in GtkKeyFile, ued in gtk >=  
> 2.6).  Could you check those lines in your old config?  Perhaps an  
> earlier version of GnomeConfig used a different convention.
In 2.0.17, I just created a dummy filter "test test". That's what is  
now in the config file:

	MailboxFilters=test\\ test

	[filter-9]
	Name=test test

Hope that helped. Best regards,

Andreas

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