On Mar 4, 12:49 am, Dion Briggs <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed that I needed a way to sort responses to this list. > > Senders are different. > > Subjects are different. > > can't keyword any one particular thing. > > So then I tried including an apple in the subject line and thought, > Hmmm, > if everyone did that, then > > SORTING BY SUBJECT > > would produce all the emails at the top of Mail. > > I'm just a list newbie, but I think it's a great idea. > (I'm biased) > > see how nicely it makes the really important Mac emails stand out. > :) > > what do you think? > > dion
Sounds like a great idea... not. Call me font-challenged, but your little Apple in the subject line is just a hollow square on my PC running MS Outlook. I rarely use a Mac (during the day) to read postings to the various LEM groups that I subscribe to. I was trying to figure out why somebody would put a square in their subject... now I know. I agree with the other posters that suggested filtering on the To: field. I'm not sure what you're looking for and what your setup is, but this is how I do it in Outlook (and OS X Mail which is configured to synch with my mailbox on the Exchange server). 1. I have a folder for each group I subscribe to 2. Make a rule/filter that keys on the To: field of incoming e-mails. 3. Based on the To: field, e-mails are moved to their respective folders as Unread 4. Each folder is sorted by Subject and the 'Show in Groups' option is checked. This will cause Outlook to group all e-mails with the same subject (including the RE:'s) together. There is a similar method to do this in Mail. In OS X Mail, select View/Organize by Thread Now you can see whenever you have a new/unread message in these folders because Outlook and Mail will show a number (representing the number of unread messages) next to each folder name. Give it try. Lonnie. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
