On 19-09-2000 at 23:54, jbelk kindly wrote:
> First question in what has become an email Jihad.
I plead guilty ;-)
> I want ALL mail that does NOT have my address in the To: or CC: fields
> to be filed in trash. I want email with TBUDL in the Subject line to
> go to the TBUDL folder.
Take great care what you're doing, and in what order you set
up your folders.
For one: TBUDL mail doesn't have you in the To-field: it
says "To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". So you would need to
have that filter before the others. With your wishes, I'd go
for an order like:
1. Filter all To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to my TB folder
2. Filter all my other mailinglists to my other mailinglist
folders
3. Filter all not To: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to trash.
If you'd have the third filter as number one, _everything_
that is not strict;y addressed to you will immediatel go to
Trash, and that you certainly don't want.
To set up a TB filter, go to Accounts in the main window,
chose Sorting Office/Filters, open Incoming Mail, select
New. In the window that opens, give the filter a name: e.g.
TheBat. Source folder (i.e. the place that the filtering
needs to start in) is Inbox. Point Move Messages to the
flder where you keep your TB mail. Under strings, you add
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; under Location, you select Sender
(another criterium is possible too: Receiver, for instance,
and then use the same string). Under Presence, keep it at
yes. Mske sure that the Rule Is Active box is ticked.
Go to the Options tab and tick Continue Processing With
Other Folders.
Done. Now you have a basic filter that automatically moves
your TB mail to your TB folder.
Do the same for other mailinglists that you are on (very
often they don't list _you_ in the To: field, but use the
mailing list address), and *only then* add the filter that
makes everything that has NOT you in the To: field move to
trash:
String: !<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (don't forget the !, it
means: not)
Location: Recipient
Presence: yes
And have those move to Trash.
I'd very much advise you to carefully look at your Trash in
the following days, and when you find something that _is_
inded meant for you, make a new filter for that, or adjust
existing ones.
> Is there some kind of secret to this?
The big secret -- but it is not well-kept - is the order of
filters. You can move them up and down in the Filter Menus.
Try to fiddle a bit and watch the results.
- K -
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