Bug 56875

Summary:	filter more than eight criterion
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Unknown <null>
Component:	filtering	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, bluedzins, kde.org, kdebugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.4.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description revenant 2003-04-05 15:05:43 UTC

Version:           1.4.3 (using KDE 3.0.3)
Installed from:    Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.19-16mdk

Kmail limits me to eight criterion per filter.  This is an arbitrary and restrictive limit.  Please allow an unlimited number of filters.

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2004-05-31 20:35:09 UTC

Replaced revenant@bigpond.net.au with null@kde.org due to bounces by reporter

Comment 2 Marc Mutz 2005-06-01 18:49:29 UTC

The max number of criterions (and actions) is a compile-time constant. You can just increase that one, recompile KMail and have as many as you want.

I don't see much use in more than eight rules for any given filter anyway. The more so as you can only combine them with OR or AND and not with mixed operators.

Comment 3 Andreas Gungl 2006-01-17 21:10:06 UTC

*** Bug 120298 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 David Saxton 2006-01-17 21:47:08 UTC

Why not make the default limit something reasonable (e.g. 256)? Or is there some trade-off in terms of memory of speed of KMail for increasing the maximum number of filters?

Comment 5 Jonathan Marten 2009-06-30 15:40:39 UTC

*** Bug 150472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jonathan Marten 2009-06-30 15:53:08 UTC

Also requested on bug 53499.

Comment 7 François Rey 2009-07-06 00:36:43 UTC

I support this with of an unlimited number of criteria, or at least something much greater than just 8 (e.g. 256).

I'd use this for the filtering of advertising/mailing that we get from almost all online store one has been a client of. I don't want to classify them as spam, but I don't want to see them in my inbox. I only need to see them when I'm considering a purchase, in which case I browse the ads folder.

And I don't want to use more than one rule for this, I only need to set up a list of senders.

Comment 8 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-20 13:42:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 94062 ***