Hello Michael, > I'm experimenting with using filters for read messages. I've been filtering > incoming mail for some time with good success. My goal is to have mail from > common people or domains automatically go to the proper folder after I'm > done with it.
What you want to do is similar to the set up I have. - I have addresses for what you call 'common people' in my address book and they all belong to a same Group. - I have an Incoming filter that checks if Sender belongs to Group and, if so, the message is moved to a folder that I called 'My Inbox'. - In Account/Properties/Options I have disabled (deselected) the 'Mark message as read when it has been read for..' so that messages are NOT marked as read after N seconds. I want to decide when I am _done_ with a message and I manually mark them as read with Ctrl+M (Actually, I have customised this to use Space). - It is this manually marking as read what triggers Read filters, and I basically have two, both of them only looking (applying) to My Inbox folder: Filter 1.- If the message IS flagged, the message is moved to an 'Action-Reply' folder. (This way, if I want to reply later or take further action, I flag the message before marking it as Read). Filter 2.- This filter will only trigger if 1 hasn't but, anyway, it checks if the message is NOT flagged and then moves the message to folder '\\Account\Group\%ABFromName'. - I then have a Replied filter that similarly to Read filter 2, "looks" only to folder 'Action-Reply' and moves the replied message to '\\Account\Group\%ABFromName'. This one, together with an Outgoing filter that checks if "Address groups. Group contain first recipient", move both the message I have just replied to and my own reply to folder '\\Account\Group\%ABFromName'. HTH. But if something is not clear enough or you need more detail, please ask. > So now I have a few questions for the experts! > > - If 'Manual' is not selected, when is mail filtered in a folder? AFAIK, when manually marking it as read. > - Will mail filter out of any folder? If so, I guess I can use a > condition to only filter out of the Inbox. Read and Replied filters have an extra 'Folders' tab where you can select if the filter applies to 'Any folder' or just to one or more folders. > - I put a button on the toolbar to refilter. It's now 3 clicks to filter a > folder (Refilter button, OK, Close). Is there any way to have the > refilter process run without as much interaction (fewer clicks)? Not that I know of. But I think you don't really need to use 'Re-filter'. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.99.3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
