Hello Thomas, > I just find the required duplication very inefficient. I think this is > a weak point of the otherwise very suprior filtering system, which is > probably one of the sales drivers.
I have several of your messages in this same thread marked 'for reply' but I guess I'll just summarise what I want to say in this one. Correct me if I'm wrong (my memory is not improving with age) but, IIRC from discussions in the past, you use 'hundreds' of filters, don't you?. And it is probably because of the huge number of filters that you actually 'complain' about having to 'duplicate' them, and that's understandable. But, it seems to me (again correct me if I'm wrong), that you're probably using a quite 'basic' approach (i.e. just one filter after the other), much in the way you can do with OE and other email clients, and not taking real advantage of (in your own words above) a "very superior filtering system". What I mean is that Alexander, for example, had a similar approach to yours and, as pointed in my <mid:358866294.20090224123...@rancho-k.com>, he could replace his 300 filters (150 incoming and 150 outgoing) by just two. Have you never stopped and said "Wait a minute! There must be a better way to set up this". What I mean is that when I was active (before retiring about one year ago) I corresponded with a lot of people from different countries and companies and, although I had an specific folder for many of them, the same was not true for filters. I set up folders trees for countries and then perhaps sub-folders for companies, another level for departments and maybe another level for specific people. Then, with a somewhat similar structure, I had several Address Books with different groups in them and took advantage of this in my filtering set-up. Also taking advantage of one of the powerful features in TB's filtering like filters and sub-filters. For example, I have seen people having a (top level) filter for each person in a company (i.e. with same domain in email address) when it is much more efficient to have the top filter just check for the domain (or AB and group, etc.) and, if true, then check for the different people in sub-filters. Finally, I don't know (or don't remember) your specific reason(s) to have so many filters in your set-up and why as you say somewhere in the thread, you always use 'Headers' in the filter conditions. I will not say that you can reduce your number of filters to just two, but I am quite sure there must be a way of setting up a more comprehensive, more efficient and easier to maintain structure of folders and filters. Correct me if I am wrong :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v4.1.11.5 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.11.6 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
