Hi Sarah and others,
Sarah's tip helped. it turned out the text I was seeing was in the
subject field not in the to field as I thought. When I put the list name in
the subject area in the criteria area the rule worked as expected.
Eric Caron
On Apr 19, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Sarah k Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. if the message has no subject use the too field
>
> 2. if the message has the subject of let's say [list name] then put that
> subject in the subject field.
>
> these are the 2 possible senarios that I'v seen when creating filters for
> lists.
>
> Take care.
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Eric Caron <eric_ca...@mac-access.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi listers,
>>
>> It has been some time since I had to set up a rule to send messages
>> from a list to a mailbox. I recently joined two lists for guide dog users
>> and can't seem to get the rules working correctly. I looked at the rules I
>> have working for the Mac-Access and other lists but must be missing
>> something. Can someone share with me there ways of getting a lists messages
>> to go into a specific mail box?
>>
>> I have created the mailbox and am playing with the criterias but no success
>> yet. I also am having a little trouble in the headers of the list messages
>> finding useful things to put into the criteria fields.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips.
>>
>> one useful note both these new lists place the name in the from field but so
>> far I have not figured out how that might help me. for example it says the
>> sender's name then "juno-l".
>>
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>
>> Eric Caron
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