On Sat 14-Jun-03 7:39am -0400, Bob Morris wrote:
> Until now I have not felt any need to apply a kill filter, but after
> the recent spate of aggressive posts from one poster I want to
> exclude him from the material I read.
Well, I'm fairly new hear too, but I've found that everyone here is
very helpful. But we all have too much coffee at time and may not
react optimally at times. But setting up a filter is fun.
> I have set up a filter as follows:
> RULE
> Name: (Offender's Name) Kill Filter
Just call it the Kill Filter.
> Source folder: Inbox
> Move messages to folder: TBUDL
If you're going to 'kill', move to a spam folder that has sound turned
off.
> Filtering strings: (Offender's Name) Location: Sender Presence: Yes
Since you've selected Regex, enter the offenders' addresses with a '|'
separating each address. So if you want to 'kill' [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED], you would type: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Later, when you want to add [EMAIL PROTECTED], just return and append
|[EMAIL PROTECTED] - not as easy as pressing a button, but very quick to do.
> Rule is Active
> ACTIONS
> Mark the message as read
If you're going to 'kill,' do it. Choose Delete and, if you normally
keep mail on the server, Delete from Server.
> OPTIONS
> Continue processing with other filters
Don't do that, we're through with him/her. That option is useful
when, for example, you're adding a flag or color code and still want
to do other thing - like move the mail to the appropriate folder.
Any mail that fails the rule moves on to the next rule.
Of course, you'll still see replies. To get rid of those, the Message
IDs would need to be appended to a file, preferably date stamped, and
another filter would check mail reference blocks for that MID. This
is not supported by TB.
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Best regards,
Bill
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished
to turn author-and that he did not learn it better."
[Frederick Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher]
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