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%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:35:35 +0200

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter in forum The Bat! - Filters.

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Daniel van Rooijen wrote:
That's weird. Where did you find this?
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You are right, of course. Such syntax existed several years ago, as I remember. Now the names of the headers are the same as in original message.

Regarding errors in True Friend macros, I think he should use %OHEADER instead of %HEADER macro.
21 January 2026 22:35:35, Zygmunt Wereszczyński.

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:35:35 +0200

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter in forum The Bat! - Filters.

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Zygmunt Wereszczyński wrote:
You make mistake in %HEADER macro syntax. The argument in this macro should be written without minus sign, i.e. the correct use should be %HEADER("DeliveredTo") .
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That's weird. Where did you find this?

The online documentation (link) says:

%HEADER(header)
Inserts the text from the header field identified by the header parameter. The header parameter is the RFC-name of the header defined under "“Options -> Preferences -> Viewer/Editor -> Message Headers”"

Looking at the various header entities in “Options -> Preferences -> Viewer/Editor -> Message Headers”, I find "Delivered-To", not "DeliveredTo". Is this different in your version of TB?
21 January 2026 20:35:35, Daniel van Rooijen.

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:31:16 +0200

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter in forum The Bat! - Filters.

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True Friend wrote:
Where should I replace "%HEADER("Delivered-To"))" with the real end recipient.But for some reason it doesn't work. Or rather it doesn't work only in filters, because when I enter the same filter in the templates to test it, it displays correctly.
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You make mistake in %HEADER macro syntax. The argument in this macro should be written without minus sign, i.e. the correct use should be %HEADER("DeliveredTo").
21 January 2026 18:31:16, Zygmunt Wereszczyński.

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:31:05 +0200

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter in forum The Bat! - Filters.
I'm afraid that I can't read these one-line filters.. My older version (v8.3) of The Bat puts filters in a more human-readable format when you copy/paste them.

Still, I can make a guess what they're doing. Apparently you want to archive messages as files in folders on a network drive, and the name of the folder must be the name of the recipient of the message. You said this goes wrong with 'forwarded' messages, but I think you meant 'redirected' (or 'auto-forwarded') messages that have been redirected by the mail server (not by a user).. I can see how that would cause a problem with archiving to the proper folder.

When a message is saved in a wrongly named folder, and you view that message manually, is the 'Delivered-To:' line actually in it? I guess it's more likely that the line is there but your RegEx somehow doesn't catch it, but I am terrible with RegEx, so I can't tell you if you're doing anything wrong. I do have 2 thoughts, though:

1) You're cleaning up the folder name using RegEx, but wouldn't you rather use the %VALIDFILECHARS macro? It may catch a few more bad characters and it would simplify the filters. Maybe that would make it easier to find the problem, too.

2) Do you have a lot of mailboxes? If not, maybe you could make a filter for each one. It would test the recipient address and then export the message to a fixed folder name (so, the filter would not have to create a new folder that would possibly get the wrong name).

Good luck!
19 January 2026 06:31:05, Daniel van Rooijen.

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:39:55 +0200

%HEADER("Delivered-To")) is not working in filter in forum The Bat! - Filters.
Hi. I need help with this problem.
I use the following filter to sort received emails: ====code====

\\lk-lk\Data\Archiv-Sorted\acc_%ReplaceRegExp("[\.\+\-]","_",%ReplaceRegExp("@","_",%OTOADDR))\Incoming\%ODATE="yyyy"\%ReplaceRegExp("[\.\+\-]","_",%ReplaceRegExp(".*@","",%FromAddr))\%ReplaceRegExp("[\.\+\-]","_",%ReplaceRegExp("@.*","",%FromAddr))

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but it causes the problem that "%OTOADDR" takes the email fr om the original recipient of the message. So when the message is forwarded, the original recipient is displayed.

Gradually I came to the point where I modified the filter like this: ====code====

\\lk-lk\Data\Archiv-Sorted\acc_%ReplaceRegExp("[\.\+\-]","_",%ReplaceRegExp("@","_",%HEADER("Delivered-To")))\Incoming\%ODATE="yyyy"\%ReplaceRegExp("[\.\+\-]","_",%ReplaceRegExp(".*@","",%FromAddr))\%ReplaceRegExp("[\.\+\-]","_",%ReplaceRegExp("@.*","",%FromAddr))

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Where should I replace "%HEADER("Delivered-To"))" with the real end recipient.

But for some reason it doesn't work. Or rather it doesn't work only in filters, because when I enter the same filter in the templates to test it, it displays correctly.

Wh ere am I making a mistake?

Tested on version 12.

I am attaching the header of the email I am trying to process (I have changed the delivery emails).
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Delivered-To: bbb@bbb.com
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19 January 2026 03:39:55, True Friend.