Saturday, August 7, 2004, 11:15:51 PM, you wrote: BM> On Sat 7-Aug-04 6:02pm -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>> I'm having trouble with a filter. Perhaps someone can spot >> my error. BM> I've not tested your filter with "refilter." I used it with your BM> hotkey. It appears to work fine with the minor modifications I BM> mention below. To test the filter, did you select a folder before hitting the hot key combo? Did you select any messages? >> Rule >> ---- >> >> Source: Inbox\04-01 >> Move messages to folder: Inbox\04-01A BM> Using the hotkey, leave these at their defaults. How does the filter know which folder to filter? >> Filtering strings: >> Strings From: >> Location Sender >> Presence Yes BM> There's no need, with hotkeys, to add a filter for your harvesting BM> action. I don't understand. Without a filter, how do I copy the email address of each sender to a specific group of an address book? >> Active - checked >> Manual only - not checked BM> Check Manual also. Why? >> Actions >> ------- >> Add addresses to Address Book >> Items: Sender (From) >> Add tp groups: taskvols (this is a folder in the Personal AB) >> Options >> ------- >> Regex is checked BM> Why? I had this from an earlier attempt when I was trying to write a regex for the filter string. >> Execute on CTRL-SH-F12 >> >> (Nothing else is checked) BM> Check "This rule is executed only by pressing the hotkey >> I close this, go to the Inbox\04-01, click Folder > >> Re-filter. It says that it filtered N messages, but when I >> look at the AB, nothing has been added. BM> If you actually want to process all the mail in a folder, just use BM> ctrl-a to select all before your hotkey. The normal use, however, BM> would be to press your hotkey on a message whose sender you want added BM> to your AB. The whole point is to grab ALL the from addresses from ALL the messages in a folder. Thanks. -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
