Bug 51008

Version:           1.5 (using KDE 3.0.9)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.19

I have a HUGE number of filters (400+). Just like software code, where a single huge source file can turn to spaghetti and be hard to manage, my situation grows very grave :)

I would like to be able to add an additional action to particular sets of filters, and have that action be to execute a different filter. Then I could "modularize" my filters. For example, say I've got 40 spam filters that each trap about 6 varieties of subject lines and body phrases that qualify the mail as spam. Right now, each of them individually mark the mail appropriately, essentially a duplicate action for 40 filters. However, if I want to change this behavior, I've got to manually modify 40 filters. If I was able to add an action to execute, for example, a "Spam Marker" filter to all 40 filters, then I would only have to change one filter to update all 40 filters.

Maybe this can be done now, if I make my filters add a header depending on content type, and not stop processing, and then have a group of filters that do things based on header matches? I'll check into it, but I think modularized filters would be much easier to grasp for the typical power user.