Received from H.R. Riggs on 3/6/03 at 8:59 pm >1. Exclude mail from a specific source from showing up in the Recent Mail >window? Use: I subscribe to a high volume list. Currently that mail is >directed to a specific folder. I would prefer that this mail not be in >the Recent Mail window, as it is a distraction.
Yes. Presumably you have a filter set up along the lines of: . . . . . . . . . . If FROM is [EMAIL PROTECTED] then MOVE message to Folder A. . . . . . . . . . . In order to prevent the message from appearing in Recent Mail, just add an action to this filter so that the message gets moved to the Mail Trash, THEN to Folder A. Moving it to the mail trash removes it from Recent Mail. I use this trick to prevent all the messages from this mailing list from filling my Recent Mail window. >2. Is there a way to prevent PM from "dinging" when mail from a specific >source is received? See above. Not that I know of, except that you could turn off "Play Sound" in the Notifications pane of prefrences. Then you could use filters to assign specific noises to certain addresses, using the address book. Here's what I mean: Let's say, for example, that you have your PM address book divided up into 3 folders called Friends, Work and Family. So all your addresses are in one or another of these folders. You can then set up three filters with parameters like: . . . . . . . . . . Filter incoming messages: If FROM is in Folder "Friends" then PLAY SOUND "Ding" Do NOT stop applying filters to this message. . . . . . . . . . . There are many variations on this depending on how your PM address book is set up; mine is synched to my Apple Address Book app, which means that all of my addresses are in one folder in the PM address book called "Apple Address Book Contacts". Obviously this doesn't help me much in subdividing addresses for noise choice, so I have created several Groups in the PM address book (each group containing _aliases_ to addresses from the "Apple Address Book Contacts" folder) and have my filter look for those groups rather than folders. Same result though. I know that this is kind of a backwards way of achieving what you wanted, but it does have the advantage that, once it's set up (and it's not as difficult as I've made it sound here), on the occasions when PM *does* make a noise you know roughly who the email is from. Hope this helps; Rick ----------- G4/500 MHz (DP) :: OS 10.2.6 :: PM 4.1.3 :: 3 pane mode :: 768 MB RAM <www.sharkattack.co.uk>
