Send to folder based on Subject

[MSWallack]

In a group that is set to automatically download, is it possible to create a filter or rule that causes NewsBin to download files with a subject that matches certain criteria to a different folder than the default folder used for files in that group?

[DThor]

There's not a generic scripting language to allow that at this time, no. There are a number of methods, however, such as specific folders per group, mp3 parsing, etc., and the Newsbin guys are always improving the product. Is there a sort of thing in particular you're looking to deal with? Please be generic in terms of descriptions...

DT

[MSWallack]

The particular group has lots of stuff that I'm interested in (hence the automatic download). However, there is on subset of files that are always given a particular subject prefix (for example: New files for Feb. 03 - filename.rar) and are always from the same sender.

[DThor]

Afaik, no, nothing in there at this time that could handle that. I don't think it would be a bad idea at all to allow keywords in subjects to trigger custom download paths, though. Quade has mentioned in irc that the whole custom path thing is currently a series of duct tape gadgets, they're scattered all over the package and don't have a consistent interface. At some point he'd like to revisit the whole schmeer and make it at the very least a little neater, and certainly something like this would be a good thing to introduce, Imho.

DT

[Quade]

I'm not averse to the idea but, there's nothing there now to do it. Not automatically.

I can add it to the todo list to consider.

[MSWallack]

OK. Thanks for the help. I didn't think that there was a way, but hey, it never hurts to ask. Adding that sort of a feature in the future would be really great. I can think of all sorts of keyword filterning that I might want to try...