One of the major bugs left in Thor is that if you try to killfilter something that contains one of AmigaDOS' special character (i.e. colon, slash and so forth) Thor refuses to add that and all remaining posts to its database. Has anyone ever run across any utilities that will flag and delete such items from Thor's Killfilter database? If not how hard would it be to write such a utility program?

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As I have my hands in Thor at the moment, I can try to help...

So, as I understand, you are using the kill/emphasize feature of Thor to filter out unwanted mails/messages. Is that it ?
Can you be more precise as to what is causing the problem ? Is it one or more characters in the mailbox file (which ones ?) that are causing the kill function to misbehave ? Or is it a pattern trigger you are using as filter that has unexpected results ?

In the first case, the m.0 mailbox file that is to be parsed by Thor is a simple text file that can be edited (by an ARexx script) to remove (or escape ?) the offending characters before being processed by your kill filter. In the second case (what are you using as pattern ?), you have to experiment with other pattern constructions to see if it helps. If its something that the kill/emphasize database is doing wrong, there not much things else to try as this feature is internal to Thor and cannot be controlled from external utilities. Its Thor binary then that need to be fixed.

Could you use SortMail to do the kill filtering ?
I personnaly never used the kill/emphasize feature of Thor. Most of the filtering is done by SortMail triggers, and I delete "by hand" the remaining unwanted messages from the database.
SortMail however is working AFTER the messages are parsed into the database. The matching messages are then deleted (or moved, or whatever you want SortMail to do) from the EMail conference. Because of that, even if a trigger have a unexpected result, you will only loose the processed message, not the whole downloaded mailbox.

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by AmigaPhil on 13-Dec-2006 0:41:55 @Valiant As I have my hands in Thor at the moment, I can try to help... So, as I understand, you are using the kill/emphasize feature of Thor to filter out unwanted mails/messages. Is that it ? Can you be more precise as to what is causing the problem ? Is it one or more characters in the mailbox file (which ones ?) that are causing the kill function to misbehave ? Or is it a pattern trigger you are using as filter that has unexpected results ? In the first case, the m.0 mailbox file that is to be parsed by Thor is a simple text file that can be edited (by an ARexx script) to remove (or escape ?) the offending characters…

You're having issues with Thor's kill/emphasize feature filtering emails incorrectly due to certain characters or patterns in your messages causing misbehavior. You can try editing these problematic parts before processing, experimenting with different pattern constructions for filters if needed, and consider using SortMail as an alternative since it operates on processed data rather than raw mailbox files.