Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 4:00:31 AM, you wrote: > Hi fellow TB! users,
> I'm after a touch of advice for filtering mails from 5 other accounts > into one inbox. > What is the best way to filter as I also want to add an auto-reply to > the mails that are forwarded from the 5 accounts into the one. I have my old email account filtering mails to my new one. I have one final filter in the account which looks for "." in the kludges (so it will find every message not done already). This *redirects* the email to my main email address. With local delivery enabled (from network and admin box) these emails are sent straight through the bat. The redirected mail then arrives in my main email account, and runs through all the filters I have there. TB adds a "Resent-from:" in the header, referring to the account the email was redirected from, which allows me to filter these emails and give them a colour group. So I know that all blue emails in my inbox came from my old account. A simpler method would be to just put one filter in each account you want to forward from. This would catch all mail (eg look for "." in kludges) and move it to the inbox of the main account. You wouldn't need to bother with redirecting or local delivery options. The only problem is that the mail won't pass through the filters of the main account. If you don't use filters on these emails then this way would be fine. > Do I put a filter on each account, or can I do one that suites all? You'll need a filter on each account you want to forward from > When they then arrive in the inbox they were forwarded to, I then want > to filter them into various subfolders. You could either use multiple filters in the original account, and send them to the folder directly. Or if you already have the filters in the main account, a single redirecting with local delivery as above would be the best option. > Would I be correct in thinking that all these filters will be based on > 'Incoming Mail' filter? Yes, as long as you want them to go straight to the account, which I would assume you do. > Also, when exactly is the 'Read Messages' filter triggered? Is it when > the message is first opened, or when I close it? The reason I ask, is > because I don't use a preview pane or after 5 seconds. I prefer the > double click to open method. Don't know about this I'm afraid, I don't use read message filters > I hope that all made sense and looking forward to receiving assistance. Hope this helps :) -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro Cooking lesson #1: don't fry bacon in the nude. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
