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i can't for the life of me figure out how to make a logical and condition w/ the message filter.

i want to select all messages that start w/ abc and are of length 1024 lines.

i've tried the following in the message filter:

started w/
subject starts w/ abc
select
lines = 1024, negate, apply to selected
reset

that didn't work.

can someone please provide instructions for logical and/or selection w/ the message filters.

thanks

You want messages that are exactly 1024 lines only?

The filter would be:

Subject Begins with abc
Select
Click the radio button for "Apply to selected" next
Lines = 1024
Extract

The "Apply to selected" is the "And" you're looking for because it takes the selection from the first filter and applies the second filter to only those headers.

i only wanted to "select" the messages that began w/ abc and where exactly 1024.

can it be done w/out extracting the messages. i was doing this from a global query on all new messages. i wanted to select the above messages and then mark them as old so they wouldn't clutter up the global filter. they where a bunch of spam messages.

Simply change the final command to Select instead of Extract. This way the filter will select all headers with abc in the subject and then from those headers it will select all headers with a line count of 1024.