Craig; Filter only show up in the list if they have either the incoming or outgoing check-boxes selected, since whether a filter is greyed out or not is decided by PowerMail contextually (ie. if the message was sent by you then filters that only apply to incoming messages will be greyed out, if you *received* the message then the filters that apply to outgoing messages only will be greyed).
The way to get around this is two stage: First you need to create a STOP filter in your filter list. Create a new filter, call it something like "Stop point", set its activation condition to 'Always", DON'T give it any actions to perform but DO check the "Stop applying filters..." box. Put this filter at the end of your filter list; the result is that any filter check will stop at that point, regardless. Thus, any filters that you place AFTER the 'Stop Point' filter in the list can *only* be activated manually. Next, place your filter dealing with your redirected mail after the 'Stop Point' filter in the list. Select both Incoming and Outgoing check-boxes -- since you're triggering this filter manually it doesn't matter. Now you have a filter that you can activate manually and a place in the list to place any other filters that you want to be manually activated only. Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.1 :: PM 4.2.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Craig Dudley on 26/2/04 at 7:43 pm >Hi, >I have created a filter to remove redirected messages from my Sent Messages >folder. I have the "Filter incoming messages" and "Filter outgoing messages" >boxes unchecked. When I go to my Sent Messages folder, do a Select All and >try a Mail->Perform Filter pull down, I find my filter is not in the drop >down list. >I don't want this specific filter to be applied automatically - only manually. > >Is there a way I can perform this function?
