Christian, Your suggestion works beautifully! Thanks for the help. -- Craig > >>I have defined my filter with the appropriate criteria. I have >>unchecked the Filter Incoming messages & the Filter Outgoing Messages >>boxes. When I do that, "my filter name" does not show up in the >>Mail->Perform Filter cascade list. >> >>Does this mean I can't use this filter to do what I want unless I have >>one of the Filter Incoming/Outgoing Messages check box checked? > >An untested idea I had on this: > >Create a filter named "---DIVIDER---" at the very bottom of the filter >list and set it up like this: > >[x] Filter incoming messages [x] Filter outgoing messages > >Conditions: >[always] > >Actions: >[No action] >[x] Do not perform subsequent filters for this message > >(I'm not sure about the terms' localizations, though - I'm using the >German version currently). > >Then, move *your* new filter BELOW the above filter. This means, it will >never get executed automatically, because the divider filter above it >catches all messages and bails out. You then can safely set the [x] >Filter incoming messages flag, which should make it show up in the >filters list where you then can perform it manually. > >Again, not tested - but I think it should work. > >Regards, Christian. > >
