Hallo M, On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:31:30 +0800GMT (4-7-2004, 14:31 +0200, where I live), you wrote:
MIC> What I would like to do is have the program automatically MIC> move the parked messages into the folder after a certain length MIC> of time. (Say, five days.) You can't do that automatically, however you could do that by triggering the filter manually. MIC> In the 'advanced' tab of the filter I can tell it only to MIC> work if the message is parked, read and over 4 days old, but I MIC> have some difficulties: MIC> 1) what triggers the filter? The conditions of the filter (in the first place) Combined with the message being received, read or answered (depending on the filter) these are bypassed by executing the filter manually. MIC> 2) When running the filter manually, sometimes it moves the MIC> messages but sometimes it copies them, which is a major problem. That's because your messages are parked, being parked means that they won't be deleted, so moving ends in copying as the message appears in the keep-folder but 'forgets' to disappear in the source folder. Maybe it'll help if you set the filter to unpark the message. MIC> (As an aside, the organisation of filters in TheBat! leaves MIC> a LOT to be desired as well. Coming from Agent, where filter MIC> management was simple and clear, it was something of a shock to MIC> find that such powerful filters were so difficult to keep MIC> organised.) Though I've used Agent only for news, I must say that I've never really understood Agent's filtering mechanisms. I suppose it's part of TB's filtering strength that the filters are executed in the order you place them. As for keeping them organised, I'm using a couple of dummy filters to divide my sorting office in sections, they're filters with an impossible condition, like qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq in recipient, but as names they're using long strings as this: "**** Mailinglists ******************************************" That means that while browsing through the sorting office I easily find my filters for mailing lists, for AB filters, etc -- Groetjes, Roelof Disclaimer: Any opinion stated in this message is not necessarily shared by my budgies or rabbits. ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
