Jérôme The theory (and it could be an erroneous one) is that the filter gets run every time new mail arrives -- since when new mail arrives PM automatically runs all filters in order (until it gets a positive result for one that has the "No more filters" box checked). I was hoping that it would act on the messages in the folder since they were originally incoming messages, without being selected -- after all, I don't manually select mail as it arrives to have filters act upon it.
But I can see a flaw in my logic. If that was going to work, then another problem would arise: any previously filter-filed messages that I'd subsequently decided to put somewhere else for any reason would get whipped back to their filter-designated location every time new mail arrived. That doesn't happen, so I have to assume that my new filter won't work either. Bugger. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 5.0b12 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from PowerMail Engineering on 27/4/04 at 2:47 pm >It seems OK, but I'm wondering how do you run this filter? If you run it >manually (as it is for old messages, I assume you do), why do you need a >condition for the folder, since the filter is only applied to the >messages you have selected?
