MWPro - manage sort by status column better

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Author: MrBill, Location: USA PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:00 am    Post subject: MWPro - manage sort by status column better
I like to work with my messages sorted by the "Status" column. This allows me to look over the apparent good messages with a critical eye to find bad ones, and the Known Spam with a bias to find false positives. The problem I have now is that when I sort by Status, I get what "seems" to be a list in order of "badness", but with inconsistencies. For example, I have filters that mark messages as Legitimate or Spam, based on various criteria - but those filters sort "in between" the others so that sometimes a single "Keep" message is overlooked between Blacklisted by SpamCop and Known Spam. I end up sweeping it up along with those two categories and reporting it to SpamCop. This really seems to irritate them, if it happens to be a response from an ISP to one of their Spam reports. I'd like to make all Legitimate messages sort together - Friends, Possibly Legitimate, Keep (one of my filters), SpamCop Replies (another of my filters), etc. and all bad messages sort together - Possibly Spam, Probably Spam, Blacklisted by..., Not to Me (another of my filters), Known Spam, etc. I don't think there's a way to do this by naming my filters in some alphabetic fashion (even if I could find names that made sense that way). The sorting by Staus doesn't seem to be based on alphabet - unless there's a hidden status name that is being used rather than the displayed text.
Author: stan_qaz,  PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:18 am    Post subject:
I start all my filter "status" fields with an X for spam and an A for legitimate and that seems to keep the filtered stuff together.

Not sure how that would work on the version you are using.
Author: MrBill, Location: USA PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:21 am    Post subject:
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I start all my filter "status" fields with an X for spam and an A

I'll try it.
Author: AlphaCentauri,  PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:42 pm    Post subject:
I do similarly with "a" in front of definitely legit and "z" in front of definitely spam. The problem is that FirstAlert overrides your own filters and prevents sorting by filter name. I ended up shutting it off for that reason.
Author: MrBill, Location: USA PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:05 am    Post subject:
I tried modifying the filter names but I find that my filtered "good" sorts above the RBL spam. I'm also frustrated not to be able to mark a message as Legitimate and also mark it for deletion (seems reasonable to me - it's a good message, I see it, but I don't need to download it to my mail client).

I think my suggestion for improvements to the sort by Status stands - I can't find a way to sort all my good messages together when I sort by Status.
Author: stan_qaz,  PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:59 pm    Post subject:
That isn't a new suggestion it has been made many times by many people with no changes forthcoming. Since as users we can't force changes on firetrust all we can offer is workarounds.
Author: MrBill, Location: USA PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:23 am    Post subject:
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Since as users we can't force changes on firetrust all we can offer is workarounds.

Yes, I understand that. Just making the suggestion for them to pick up on - or not, as the case may be.
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