Filter Feeds
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Why is there no option to filter feeds the same way you can filter email?
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The "why" is difficult to answer, quite philosophical. Maybe because nobody asked for it, or it was an oversight to implement it, or it should work but it doesn't. In any case, it's certainly worth noting that in the email panel, it's not easily possible.
Checking this out I realize that you can use the search field above the message list to filter the entire list of all your newsfeeds just as you can filter the messages within a specific newsfeed - but you can only save the search as a permanent filter in the specific feed, not when you search all feeds. The same is true for labels, mailing lists, etc. I have filed bug "VB-101645 [Mail] Can't save filter when searching in a full category (Feeds, Mailing Lists, Labels)" about this.
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Added a vote since I'm struggling to create a filter for removing spam from a certain feed. I can do the following for "all messages":
from:[part of feed name] AND [keyword1]
OR from:[part of feed name] AND [keyword2]
OR from:[part of feed name] AND [keyword3]..etc., where I found that "keyword" can include spaces as long as I use "OR", "from:" and "AND" in this order.
I haven't found a way to exclude some legitimate mails sent from that website which happen to have some of those keywords in there. Every time I put a "NOT" anywhere at all, the whole filter shows 0 messages. Same thing if I added a space between two words in the "from:" part.
This is annoying since I did the same thing for another feed where I could use it to select all junk and delete, but if I do that here I'll be deleting legitimate mails. If I could filter only feeds, that would fix it. (And if anyone knows how to use NOT properly, that could also fix it. Is there a tutorial on the filter rules anywhere?)
