Hello Peter,
on Sat, 28. Feb 2004 at 03:42:31 +0100 Peter Ouwehand wrote:
dh>> what do you think about a general filter (like <Known>) where you
dh>> select a destination folder and mark contacts from you address book(s)
dh>> that you'd like to have moved to a special folder?
dh>> This filter would then check for the marked AB contacts and move these
dh>> mails to a subfolder of the one that you defined in the filter.
> In other words: expand the <Known> filter with the functionality you
> mention? Ok.
Yep, could be implemented that way.
> I assume the chosen destination folder needs to / will be created
> 'on the fly'.
Of course.
dh>> ..and somewhere the expandable AB where you can select which contacts
dh>> you want to be processed.
dh>> I would simply have to setup a common folder like "personal", activate
dh>> this filter and mark the contacts that I write most to and would have
dh>> a very comfortable mailing situation, without setting
dh>> incoming/outgoing filters for every contact I want to be treated that
dh>> way.
> Isn't the <known> meant to be like 'personal' ?
> Setting this up for each wanted / allowed address book entry seems quite time
> consuming to me.
You're right about the similarity of <known> and 'personal'.. so
'personal' would be simply the <known> folder.
But you wouldn't have to select each wanted/allowed, but only the AB
groups that the <Known> filter should check, plus the entries that
should be put in a seperate subfolder.
Yeah, that'd be good and easy to implement/understand, IMHO.
> I could live with 'filter msgs from contacts listed in some specific
> address book / group into a destination folder (automagically created)'
> using your proposal.
That would be to have a checkbox also next to each AB group in the
<Known> filter setup that would put the whole group in a subfolder.
This would look like:
Address books to check against:
x AB 1 put in subfolder
x [x] group 1 [x]
contact1 [ ]
contact2 [ ]
contact3 [ ]
x [x] group 2 [ ]
contact1 [ ]
contact4 [x]
contact5 [x]
contact6 [ ]
contact7 [x]
contact8 [ ]
X [ ] group 3 [ ]
x AB 2
x [ ] group 4 [ ]
contact9 [ ]
contact10 [ ]
contact11 [ ]
x [ ] group 5
contact4 [ ]
contact12 [ ]
contact13 [ ]
contact14 [ ]
x AB 3
...
About subfolder names:
it would be best to have an input box beside the "put in subfolder"
checkbox that will allow to set the subfolder's name, filled by
default with the AB group name for whole AB groups subfolders and the
AB display name for single contacts.
For usability the <Known> filter should be taken away from the
"Incoming filters" group and moved to root level in the filter
hierarchy. In the <Known> filters setting you would then set for which
messages to check (Incoming/Outgoing/Read/Replied).
But what about source folders? Simply Inbox, when Incoming/Read and
Outbox for Outgoing/Replied?
Default should be Incoming and Outgoing checked, IMHO.
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