Hello Patrick, >>> but mixing incoming and outgoing mail into one folder seems so.. >>> unnatural.. have to think about this.. M>> I see it most natural to follow a "conversation" (thread), just like for M>> this mail list. > mh.. gimme a second.. i need to adjust my brain.. it thought > otherwise the last 10 years.. ;)
It is never late to rectify and get on the right track ;-) Before moving to TB 2-3 years ago I used for some 8 years another program called Virtual Access and it had very good threading, for CIS and CIX forums, newsgroups and e-mail. That may be another reason why I find threading natural. M> Basically you can copy Incoming ones to Outgoing and, in Location, just changing M> recipient <-> sender. TB is smart enough to chan Inbox to Outbox. that i didn't get.. could you explain a bit? OK, assume you have an Incoming filter called MAU to sort incoming messages from me (MAU) to you (Patrick) to a folder named "Crap". Your filter would like: Source folder: Inbox Move message to folder: Crap Strings Location Presence MAU Sender Yes Patrick Erler Recipient Yes I have used MAU and Patric Erler instead our e-mail addresses. Now, if you want to create the corresponding Outgoing filter, select the MAU filter under Incoming and copy it, with Ctrl+C (or right click and select Copy from menu) to copy the filter to the clipboard. DO NOT use the Copy button below New and to the right of Remove ones. The Copy button makes a copy of the selected filter but still under Incoming. Now, select Outgoing mail and Paste (Ctrl+V or from the context menu) and the copied filter will appear under incoming, with the same name MAU and looking like this: Source folder: Outbox Move message to folder: Crap Strings Location Presence MAU Sender Yes Patrick Erler Recipient Yes As you can see, Inbox has been changed by TB to Outbox :) And then all you need to do, under Location, is to change Sender to Recipient and Recipient to Sender. The filter will now look like: Strings Location Presence MAU Recipient Yes Patrick Erler Sender Yes M>> It would be the same thing I'm telling you, you still have to set up M>> filters for each of your contacts, except you save the copy/paste M>> "effort". > nope, i wouldn't.. look at M2.. Yes, you may be right. I believe I read somewhere (maybe from you) that M2 automatically creates the VF for each contact in the AB. This still doesn't solve all _my_ needs because, although I use many folders, most of them are not for a single person but for a company or group. M>> IM> see VFs useful for a bit more complex conditions. Aside of M>> that, I much prefer to keep messages in separate folders. For easier M>> and faster backups, same for purge and compress, for archiving, etc. > ok, but this is a rather special preference of you i think.. ;) Yes, of course. > i'm afraid you can't have both worlds - the database speed of > virtual folders and the easy backup of using the filesystem for > storage.. or could it be possible to create a database with just > the headers in it for the virtualisiation tasks and with > references to the messagefiles? I don't know. In any case, we will have to use (I will) whatever Stefan and the rest of the team decide to implement :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v2.04.7 Winamp Playing: Willie & Lobo - Dance With You (Smoothjazz.com - The world's best Smooth Jazz - Live from Monterey, Calif.) ________________________________________________________ Current beta is (none) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
