Hi,
I'm a bit confused about this whole thread here. I'll admit that I'm
pretty new to The Bat!, but I've been trying to set up my parents on
e-mail. My Dad is slowly trying to build up his functionality, so
we've been exploring the filters. Every time we add a new filter, we
add either Incoming filters or Outgoing filters, then we re-filter his
Inbox or Sent folders respectively. Every time, TB! asks us which
filter sets we want to filter*, and we choose all of them except
manual filters only. TB! then filters all messages (read or unread)
properly.
So what is my confusion, you might ask. Well, why are people saying
that incoming filters are only for unread messages, and read filters
are only for read messages, etc.? Isn't there a simple solution to
this? I did not even realize there was a difference between the
incoming, read and replied filters.
Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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Saturday, November 27, 1999, 12:04:48 PM, Paula Ford wrote:
> On Saturday, November 27, 1999, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
>> This filtering structure can be _partially_ mimicked with TB, but not
>> in its entirety:-( OTOH, it proved to be very useful for me, hence
>> I'll probably think *very* hard before leaving it for something
>> else...
> Not to defend TB's filtering approach, but I don't see anything in your
> description that you can't do with TB. The difference would be that TB
> moves read messages when read rather than on 'closing' the folder, and
> if you wanted to keep the messages in the folder until you were done
> reading all messages, you could set the rule to manual and re-filter.
> Although when I first got TB I found the filtering oddly constructed, I
> can't think of anything now that I need to do that I can't. Let's take
> Douglas, for example. I can't say that I understand exactly what it is
> he is trying to do, but let's make some assumptions. He gets alot of
> email, much of it from mailing lists. He wants to review most, but not
> all of his new mail in the InBox before it is filtered. So, first, he
> creates rules for Incoming Mail and sets them to automatic (leaving
> manual only unchecked). Next, if he wants to filter unread messages, he
> creates Incoming Mail rules, then sets them to manual only. If he wants
> to filter read messages, he creates Read Messages rules and sets them to
> manual. That will pretty much do it, except I think what Douglas wants
> to do is to filter messages from his InBox incrementally for which TB
> would have to allow users to invoke filters from a list of all filters.
> For the most part, though, TB's filtering is fine.
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