On Thursday, August 29, 2002, Emaillists wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
E> Could someone offer me a simple explanation of Color Groups. Like most things in better software, there are multiple uses for it, depending on your purposes and your tech tolerance. In short, you can assign different colors to messages. Each color you set up has a label, e.g., "Follow up," "Urgent," etc. You can assign the color grouping to a particular message manually through the Specials menu or a keyboard shortcut, or you can assign it automatically through TB!'s filtering function. If you want, you can have the name of the color group show up as a column in your message list view. Once messages are grouped in color groups, you can use them in basically three ways. By simply looking at the folder, you can eyeball which messages are assigned to particular color groups, and you can deal with them accordingly. Or, you can search by color group. I do this, by assigning a "Follow up" color group but not otherwise interfering with the filtering rules I have set up; periodically I search for messages with that color grouping, and get a search result that gives me all messages with that color assignment across all folders. Or, you can manually (or automatically) filter for color grouped messages, moving or copying them to a folder you set up for that purpose. You could look at it as adding a new dimension or axis to the way that your messages are currently sorted. -- JN ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
