Alan
** did not know about filter's functions > thanks
** re: LOL > glad to have provided you with another Halloween treat!
** re: all of your clear and complete explanations > THANKS, great help,
as usual!
Francis
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"Alan S. Harrell" wrote:
>
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
