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* not working as wildcard in filter

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Rufis.T.Farnsworth
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I have filter rules set up that run as "Manually Run" and "Getting New Mail: Filter before Junk Classification", - are of type "From is ..." and - the actions are "Move Message to ... (certain Local Folders)."

Before the latest update, sorry, not sure of version, didn't use Thunderbird that much and still learning, I had rules set using the following *@net.com. Well the star worked fine as a wildcard but since the update to 54.0b3 (32-bit) Beta it seems that the wildcards are completely nonfunctional. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

I have filter rules set up that run as "Manually Run" and "Getting New Mail: Filter before Junk Classification", - are of type "From is ..." and - the actions are "Move Message to ... (certain Local Folders)." Before the latest update, sorry, not sure of version, didn't use Thunderbird that much and still learning, I had rules set using the following *@net.com. Well the star worked fine as a wildcard but since the update to 54.0b3 (32-bit) Beta it seems that the wildcards are completely nonfunctional. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

I don't think the star wildcard has ever worked. We use "contains", "starts with" and "ends with" instead.

The FiltaQuilla addon will give you regular expressions in certain header fields.

I wonder why, as a self-declared novice, you are using a pre-release beta version of Thunderbird? These are provided for experienced users allowing them to test upcoming versions.

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Zenos
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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

I don't think the star wildcard has ever worked. We use "contains", "starts with" and "ends with" instead.

The FiltaQuilla addon will give you regular expressions in certain header fields.

I wonder why, as a self-declared novice, you are using a pre-release beta version of Thunderbird? These are provided for experienced users allowing them to test upcoming versions.

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Rufis.T.Farnsworth
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I have reworked my filters and as far everything seems to be working fine. The funny thing before the last update to this last update to the beta version the "*" filters worked, and a few still do, but the "contained" seems to works better and faster.

No idea how I wound up with the beta version but I'm going to check the settings and try to adjust them.

Thanks for the help.

Inperfect
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For me it worked to use "" (two double commas) instead of * or "*", but I know it was a lucky strike, since it is not working as a wildcard or unknown name placeholder.

What I wanted to do is to find an attachment with an unknown number on it (querry was: "Your invoice N "".pdf") and it performed a "Search Your invoice N and .pdf" and it returned to me all mails with this attachment name, but also others that didn't matched the record.

What is supposed to be the expression used for * in this case? "contains", "starts with" and "ends with" doesn't work well.

FiltaQuilla addon is not supported on newer version 52.

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