Re: [Pan-users] I can't get my Filter to work

[Charles Kerr]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:53:40PM -0600, Denny B Peeples wrote:
> Denny B Peeples wrote:
> 
> >I must be doing something wrong.  I have set-up a filter that checks 
> >for a certain author:
> >ANY OF:
> >     Author contains '*bozo*' (not his real name). 
> >Then I went into rules and set it up for the correct group, checked 
> >the box 'Apply to Incoming', filters is set to the correct filter, and 
> >under actions have tried both 'ignore thread' and 'delete article'.  
> >Neither does anything at all.  What am I missing?
> >
> Oh, and if it makes any difference, I'm using Debian sid (updated 
> daily), and Pan 0.13.4.

If the criteria is 'contains', strip the wildcards wrapping 'bozo'.
Since 'contains' implies its own wildcards, it's trying to match those
two characters in your string as literal characters.

cheers,
Charles