Monday, November 22, 1999
Hello Fred,
Monday, Monday, November 22, 1999, you wrote:
Fred> Hi Paula,
Fred> Sunday, November 21, 1999, 10:10:23 AM, you wrote:
PF>> Of the 23 messages I've received so far this morning for this list, only
PF>> 4 of them are related to the primary purposes of this list. It seems to
PF>> me that there has been a marked decline in recent weeks in the number of
PF>> list messages from people requesting information about using TB.
Fred> Some of us "lurkers" are just waiting for "other" and "advanced"
Fred> activity/conversation to die down a bit before we interject our
Fred> novice/basic questions.
Fred> For example: I can't seem to make my filters work, and I suspect I'm
Fred> not doing them correctly. I find the Help in TB! to be less than
Fred> clear in some instances. Filters are one instance.
Fred> Here's what I did (what I clicked on):
Fred> Account
Fred> Sorting Office/Filters
Fred> Incoming Mail (maybe I should have clicked on "Kill filters"???)
Fred> New
Fred> New Rule
Fred> Rule tab:
Fred> Name: gave it a name
Fred> Source folder: Inbox
Fred> Move messages to folder: Trash
Fred> Filtering strings:
Fred> Strings: a person's name
Fred> Location: Sender
Fred> Present: Yes
Fred> Rule is: Active
Fred> Alternatives tab: nothing
Fred> Actions tab:
Fred> Delete the message: checked
Fred> Delete the message from the Server: checked
Fred> Options tab:
Fred> Continue processing with other filters: checked
Fred> Send generated messages: Queue in Outbox
Fred> But I still get messages from "a person's name" in my inbox.
Fred> What did I do wrong or forget to do?
Fred> Thanks,
If the persons name is in 2 parts (ie has a space in it) for some odd
but no doubt logical reason (and yes I know the programming reason )
filtering on the thing doesnt work.
Secondly if you want to thrash a mailer you filter him to inbox (ie
where it is) and then it gets deleted.
I think it was somewhere in the help file but absolutely not in a
helpful way...
Anyway, I find you set filters with special options and then go and
clean them up in the menu.
I always determine the order of filters myself so anything like this
should be at the far end of your filters to avoid hitting innocent
bystanders...
Ie I remove the regular correspondents to their boxes and then I start
on the rubbish.
Consider using his email address as filter only as if the name is in 2
parts I never managed to filter on it, either a bug or buggy docs or
both
Best regards,
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