Mails are filtered once by using an imap search and then by some globs
to filter files and subjects. Imap can search by subject via a
string-contains, but not via globs or patterns (afaik). The subject
filter is applied to all downloaded mail headers. Now for post
processing (moving to some target folder or deleting), it can be
chosen to post-process all "seen" mails or only those that matched all
filters.
The problem was that the field executes a request to validate its
state. This was initiated at the same time for two values. Then it was
undetermined which value comes back first.