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Apple Mail, message rule issue stumped
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kevs
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Jan 29, 2019, 08:21 PM
 
I have this nuisance guy who responds to a craigs list Ad. I've tried to make a rule to move his responses to a nuisance or trash folder, but for the first and only time, Rules wont work.

His name is in from, that I see: Joe Blow ,<[email protected] t.org>

But when I do the rule, Mail ignores his name and only grabs [email protected]. org

He sometimes put his full name and instagram in the message, but amazingly, when I try to use even that info with "message content', nothing moves. Even that does not work.
     
andi*pandi
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Jan 30, 2019, 12:06 PM
 
you can report to craigslist?
     
kevs  (op)
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Jan 30, 2019, 02:32 PM
 
Have no thought of that, but I think they have enough going on... not techincally.. what they going do?

But hold onto that idea.. but

what about my post?? If the rule could just work..
     
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Jan 30, 2019, 02:48 PM
 
ban them.

I don't think rules work with name, just the email address. And you don't want to block all the @reply.craigslist.org just the bad one.
     
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Jan 30, 2019, 02:50 PM
 
Andi, so you think a rule will be hopeless. But I see the guys first last name right before the < > why can't Mail pick that up.

And why is Mail not picking up contents of messages? He puts his full name there too and instagram.
     
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Jan 30, 2019, 03:08 PM
 
are you setting your rule to include message body?
     
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Jan 30, 2019, 03:27 PM
 
Yes for that they called it "message content", did not see message body.
     
   
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