MAU, Friday, April 27, 2007, 7:45:03 PM, you wrote: M> Hello Michael,
>> I'm experimenting with using filters for read messages. I've been filtering >> incoming mail for some time with good success. My goal is to have mail from >> common people or domains automatically go to the proper folder after I'm >> done with it. M> What you want to do is similar to the set up I have. M> - I have addresses for what you call 'common people' in my address book M> and they all belong to a same Group. M> - I have an Incoming filter that checks if Sender belongs to Group and, M> if so, the message is moved to a folder that I called 'My Inbox'. M> - In Account/Properties/Options I have disabled (deselected) the 'Mark M> message as read when it has been read for..' so that messages are NOT M> marked as read after N seconds. I want to decide when I am _done_ with a M> message and I manually mark them as read with Ctrl+M (Actually, I have M> customised this to use Space). M> - It is this manually marking as read what triggers Read filters, and I M> basically have two, both of them only looking (applying) to My Inbox M> folder: M> Filter 1.- If the message IS flagged, the message is moved to an M> 'Action-Reply' folder. (This way, if I want to reply later or take M> further action, I flag the message before marking it as Read). M> Filter 2.- This filter will only trigger if 1 hasn't but, anyway, it M> checks if the message is NOT flagged and then moves the message to M> folder '\\Account\Group\%ABFromName'. M> - I then have a Replied filter that similarly to Read filter 2, "looks" M> only to folder 'Action-Reply' and moves the replied message to M> '\\Account\Group\%ABFromName'. This one, together with an Outgoing M> filter that checks if "Address groups. Group contain first recipient", M> move both the message I have just replied to and my own reply to folder M> '\\Account\Group\%ABFromName'. M> HTH. But if something is not clear enough or you need more detail, M> please ask. >> So now I have a few questions for the experts! >> >> - If 'Manual' is not selected, when is mail filtered in a folder? M> AFAIK, when manually marking it as read. >> - Will mail filter out of any folder? If so, I guess I can use a >> condition to only filter out of the Inbox. M> Read and Replied filters have an extra 'Folders' tab where you can M> select if the filter applies to 'Any folder' or just to one or more M> folders. >> - I put a button on the toolbar to refilter. It's now 3 clicks to filter a >> folder (Refilter button, OK, Close). Is there any way to have the >> refilter process run without as much interaction (fewer clicks)? M> Not that I know of. But I think you don't really need to use M> 'Re-filter'. I just flagged your message. I'll have to look at a bit more thoroughly when I have a chance. I'm going to take your ideas and let the read filters work automatically. Just need a few minutes to wrap my mind around this. Thanks for the suggestions. I may write back when I'm actually implementing this. -- Michael Rudnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! 3.99.1 on Windows 5.1 (2600) Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
