163192 - email message filtered into wrong folder

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Eric Krock]

Using MozMail 1.1b on WinXP Pro.

Using MozMail 1.1b, I'm noticing that occasionally, an email message will be
filtered into the wrong folder.

One example: I have a folder called "aaaaSpam" and filters via which I try to
recognize spam emails and send them to the folder. An email message (source
attached) was placed into this folder by Moz filters.

I will attach:
a) my filters.dat file
b) a writeup of what the filter in question does (not pasting inline as it
includes a variety of adult words--hey, it's a spam filter after all!)
c) the source of a message that was "false positive" recognized and put into the
aaaaSpam folder; its subject was "Bug#: 6727 need to be deferred..."

I can see a couple of possible explanations:
1) one of those three "aaaaSpam" filters somehow generated a false positive and
placed the email into the aaaaSpam folder (hard to see how)
2) another earlier filter, which definitely should have recognized this message,
placed the message into the aaaaSpam folder instead of the one it should have

Comment 1

[Eric Krock]

Attachment: email that was wrongly placed in aaaaSpam folder

source of email that was wrongly placed in aaaaSpam folder (edited only to
remove personal contact info of another employee)

Comment 2

[Eric Krock]

Sorry, INVALID. After a painstaking review, just discovered that one of my spam
filters was "ANY OF" 'need' and 'cash' instead of ALL OF 'need' and 'cash',
explaining why the other message was matched. My bad!!!