On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, the following words from Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...
>Now it is true that one-off choices are manual but I've found that those >happen rarely, if ever. Essentially all my outgoing mail is >automatically moved to the appropriate folder and I can't recall a time >when I couldn't classify my outgoing mail with a permanent filter. > >In case anybody thinks I've got a dead simple setup, I should tell you >that I successfully use PowerMail to manage 28 folders, including 1 >subfolder plus 4 or 5 accounts each with their own set of filters. >Included in that is the administration of 2 mailing lists. Yes, I agree that an email client should be powerful enough to utilize several folders and filters. I'm always amazed when people don't use the filters and folders to organize and sort email. My husband, who uses Yahoo, has only created one folder; "Save" for messages he removes from his Inbox. I once had a boss that didn't know that she could set up filters in Outlook. She wanted to show me a message she had received and was scrolling through several hundred messages in her Inbox (she also didn't Sort or use Find) looking for the message she had received that morning. She was overwhelmed when I showed her how to filter into separate folders and use the Find option after several years of her previous disorganized methods. I currently have 67 folders and 81 filters and can't use any email program for more than a few minutes without setting up at least a couple dozen folders and filters. I rarely use my Yahoo account and have only half a dozen folders because I always forward to my main email account to save into PowerMail. From there, I use AppleScripts to save to FileMaker Pro. I also save another copy of really important messages to a plain text file. Without numerous filters and folders for incoming and outgoing messages, I think email would be confusing and frustrating. -- For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. -Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy * 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *
