Dear Roelof, On Friday, May 30, 2003, you wrote:
> I'm not sure whether I've got your intentions clear. > 1) When you send mail to multiple recipients, with several among them > for whom you've got a separate folder, you want to store instances of > that message in each of their folders. Well, that can be done. Yes. > 2) When you receive a message, that's not only addressed to you, but > also to one or more of your regular contacts, you'd like to place > the message not only to the sender's folder, but also to the > folders of those respective contacts. Actually that even easier > than the first case. No, sorry for the confusion, don't know why I wrote "receive from"... > Now we go for the first case. > Create for all of your contacts with their own folders this rule: > -Outgoing filter > -Source folder: Outbox > -Target folder: Outbox > -String: contact address > -Present: yes > -Location: Recipient > -At the 'Actions' tab: Choose 'Copy to folder' > -At the 'Options' tab: Check 'Continue processing with other filters' > Now you'll say that this is basically the filter as before, you're > right in that, but we aren't done yet. In the other case the moving > from the inbox was based on filters you'd already installed, but here > you'll have to decide what to do with the filtered messages. > Create an Address Book group with all of your regular contacts, call > it 'Contacts' > Now create a new filter > -Outgoing filter > -Source folder: Outbox > -Target folder: Trash > -String: . > -Present: yes > -Location: Kludges > -At the 'Options' tab: Don't check 'Continue processing with other filters' > -At the 'Advanced' tab: Check 'Adresses must be listed in Address Book' > Select 'All recipients' > Select the 'Contacts' AB group > This deletes all messages that are only sent to your regular contacts, > therefore this filter should be run after the copy-filters. Clever! Thanks a lot for that! Regards, G�nter -- G�nter Minnerup Visiting Fellow Centre for European Studies/School of History University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Tel. (+61 2) 9385 1363 (work) Tel. (+61 2) 9398 3646 (home) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
