Re: Leafnode filtering issue

John-Paul Stewart wrote:
Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:


But this still leaves my issue open. I hope someone has a solution or idea where to look!


The only thing I can think of to suggest is to check for unexpected characters (spaces at the start of the line, DOS-style line endings) in the file. What you posted looks fine (although I'm no leafnode expert) at first glance.

Running 'applyfilter' should put them to work on existing articles and future invocations of 'fetchnews' should apply them automatically to incoming messages. Does 'fetchnews -vv' show any information about articles being killed when there's something to be filtered out of the new batch? Maybe it's just 'applyfilter' that's not working.

Found it. Duh, I am thick! Leading space. How could I be so... Ah well, thanks for the hint. 107 messages removed from c.o.l.m.

I guess that also answers M.H.'s question about grepping the spool directory.

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