Filter Questions
Hello Everyone, I would like to set up a filter to copy all incoming emails arriving in a specific account to a new folder or ideally virtual folder provided the sender's email is already in the original folder (ie. use the filter to notify me that an incoming email is from a known source as opposed to be a brand-new sender). Is this possible? Also, when I fiddled with the folders, I set up a virtual folder linked to the original folder. This now shows all the emails from the original as I had not yet set up any filter. How can I get rid of it now. I am afraid deleting it will delete all original emails too, something I don't want to do? -- Best regards, Tom using TheBat! 3.98.4 on XP Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Filter Questions
Hello Tom, I would like to set up a filter to copy all incoming emails arriving in a specific account to a new folder or ideally virtual folder provided the sender's email is already in the original folder (ie. use the filter to notify me that an incoming email is from a known source as opposed to be a brand-new sender). Is this possible? Yes, it is possible in several ways. Perhaps the easiest and most straight forward way would be that you add your 'known sources' to the address book. Then, you can make Active the Known Incoming filter that is included by default by TB in the Sorting Office when an account is created. This way, messages from 'known sources' will be moved to Inbox-Known folder and the rest will just stay in normal Inbox. If you want to keep messages from 'known sources' in a separate folder for each, you can modify the action in Known filter and use the %FromName or %ABFromName macros for the folder name instead of 'Inbox-Known'. Also, when I fiddled with the folders, I set up a virtual folder linked to the original folder. This now shows all the emails from the original as I had not yet set up any filter. How can I get rid of it now. I am afraid deleting it will delete all original emails too, something I don't want to do? NO problem. If you delete a Virtual Folder the messages that were _shown_ (not stored) in it will stay in whatever real folder they were actually in. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.99.3 Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Filter Questions
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 2:59:12 AM, you wrote: Hello Tom, (ie. use the filter to notify me that an incoming email is from a known source as opposed to be a brand-new sender). Is this possible? Yes, it is possible in several ways. Perhaps the easiest and most straight forward way would be that you add your 'known sources' to the address book. Then, you can make Active the Known Incoming filter that is included by default by TB in the Sorting Office when an account is created. This way, messages from 'known sources' will be moved to Inbox-Known folder and the rest will just stay in normal Inbox. sorry, I was not clear enough - the incoming emails usually are not from known sources the first time. These are orders from customers. The majority will be new customers and new emails but over time some will be returning customers. These I would like to catch and review once they come in. However there is no need to filter them in individual folders. The trick with the address book won't work as I don't want to add each sender to the address book on the off chance that they may order multiple times. -- Tom using TheBat! 3.98.4 on XP Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Filter Questions
Hello Tom, sorry, I was not clear enough - the incoming emails usually are not from known sources the first time. These are orders from customers. The majority will be new customers and new emails but over time some will be returning customers. These I would like to catch and review once they come in. However there is no need to filter them in individual folders. The trick with the address book won't work as I don't want to add each sender to the address book on the off chance that they may order multiple times. I think address books (you can have as many as you want/need) are very useful for this type of things because you can add and delete entries with filter actions. In your case it would be simple with a couple of filters. If the sender of a message is NOT in '1st time' AB, add him. And, if he is, he is obviously a returning customer and the filter can move the message to whatever folder you wish. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.99.3 Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
