On 31 Oct 99, 4:56, fpjm wrote:
> What would be the best way to automatically dispatch dozens of messages
> into separate folders ?
Use the filters' function of your e-mail agent.
> [*]ubscribe to mailing lists with one e-mail address per list ?
LOL...a little desperate, but an option for Juno users whom have no
filter function, but can set up unlimited accounts.
However, as a fan of multiple POP3 accounts, I do use this method to
manage e-mail, to an extent. That is quite a different approach than
filtering incoming e-mail.
> Or does some software like Eudora or Gravity do the dipatch
> automatically ?
Yes. Most of your modern e-mail programs have a filter feature,
including the free Eudora Lite.
...and including NS Messenger for NS 4.0 and above.
> The question comes in as the new prefix for the list is SaF... and
> Dennis was mentionning to "adjust" the filters . What filters, and what
> does this filtering do ? Is it doing what I described above ?
Let me get you started by telling you how to find your filter feature.
I'll let you play with it, yourself. It is fairly intuitive, however
it is intuitive to me because I've worked with e-mail filters in
several clients. If you have problems figuring out how to work it,
then send me a message offlist and I will take you through the process
step-by-step.
Open your Netscape browser and at the top menu open Messenger by
selecting:
Communicator | Messenger
Then with Messenger's window before you, on it's top menu bar select:
Edit | Message filters...
Francis, basically what you are doing for all incoming mail is setting
up a filter process whereby your Messenger looks for some keyword or
string of words in the headers of the incoming messages and upon
finding it for any message, acts upon your instructions. Generally, we
set up a filter to look for a FROM, TO or SUBJECT line string and upon
finding that, we have our client set to move that message into a folder
other than the inbox.
This means you can create a special folder for your SeeknFind messages
and then set up a filter to read the Subject lines of every incoming
message to look for the string "[SaF]". Then you have the filter
instructed to automatically move that message into your SeeknFind
folder instead of the Inbox.
Filtering our incoming e-mail into selected folders is one of the most
important aspects of e-mail management. It can drive you to madness
having an inbox full of unorganized messages. You don't know which to
read first half the time. But when your e-mail program does the work
of sorting your incoming mail into folders, you can better organize
your time by prioritizing which messages to read first.
Additionally, filtering is a good tool for handling abusive mail. If
you are getting some type of message, such as spam or an annoying
correspondent, you can set up a filter to move all that incoming mail
into a trash or deleted messages folder.
Let me point out, also, the importance of keeping our Inbox and Outbox
folders lean. Upon opening many e-mail agents, the messages in the
Inbox and Outbox are stored in our computer's memory. If your Inbox is
bloated, then you may be using more of your computer's system resources
than you need. I've seen system problems occur from inboxes with too
many messages. So I advise one to keep a lean Inbox. Use filters for
many of your incoming messages and then attend to the messages that
remain in the Inbox as soon as possible.
As I said, I'll help you further offlist, but the Netscape Help Center
has some lousy instructions here:
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/970615-5.html
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/990412-7.html
Alan
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