Rene;
Perhaps the filter condition is there precisely FOR manually
activated filters. I know that in my own PM set up I have a bunch of
filters down at the bottom of the filter list that are designed for
manual use, not automated. If I wanted to move all of my mail over a
certain date to a specific folder, for instance, I could perform a
search that would list every message in my database (eg. Date
received is before Jan 1, 2020), Select All, and then apply the
'messages over x age' filter manually.
And yes, I realise that I could locate all those age-specific
messages via the initial Search, but that was only a simple example;
filters allow for much more sophisticated criteria than Search does,
and I could therefore move just those messages that were (eg.) over a
certain age AND from senders within a certain address book group AND
have attachments over a certain size.
BTW, To make some filters manual-only just make a 'stop point' filter
(condition: Always; action: stop applying filters to this message),
and put it at the bottom of your filter list. Then put all your
manual-activation-only filters *below* this stop point.
Rick
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On 24 Jan 2008, at 10:14, Rene Merz wrote:
And how do you explain the fact, that you can choose the condition
for a
(non-manually started filter!):
"Date is older than X days"?
This filter-condition doesn't make sense at all!
