Chris, you and Alan have given clear guidance on moving Hotmail messages around. I decided to have a play but got stuck almost straight away. I cannot locate a line X-Folder:xxxxxx in View message. I assume I am looking for X-Folder, not X-name of folder. Not that I can find either in the various messages I have tried. I have a number of folders in my Hotmail and have largely similar ones in Tbird but had cleaned out the filters in Hotmail - see my post of 8 Jan. So I tried again, setting a new Hotmail filter, and sent a message to myself (from a different acount) that contained the filter characteristic. It ended up in the correct Hotmail folder, but didn't reach Tbird (actually I hadn't expected it to). Before I play some more with this I would welcome a bit more of your help. Thanks Sandy
On Jan 5, 10:21 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > For the benefit of anyone else needing to set up Thunderbird filters to > move Hotmail (or other webmail services) messages to folders in Thunderbird. > First create the folder that you want to move the messages to. Right > click on "Inbox" in TB and select "New Folder", name the new folder to > whatever you want. You'll probably want to match the folder name you use > in Hotmail, but you can name it anything you like. > Then open one of the messages you want to move. From the "View" menu > select "View message source". Look for the "X-Folder: xxxxxx" line. Note > the exact wording and spelling, or copy the whole line to the clipboard. > Close the source and message Windows and go back to the main TB Window. > From the "Tools" menu select "Message Filters...", then click on the > "New" button. Select "Customise" from the drop down menu under subject. > In the new message header box type "X-Folder" (or paste the header line > you copied to clipboard and delete everything except X-Folder). OK back > to the New Filter box and put the rest of the header line in the box > after the "Contains" drop down menu, (or copy and paste then remove > X-Folder: , leaving the xxxx bit). I would set the drop down menu > option to "Is" rather than "Contains", but I think that either will > work. In the "Actions" section of the new filter select "Move to" and > your new folder created in the first step. > You'll probably want to use the "Run now" option in the main filter > dialogue box to run your new filter and move any mails already > downloaded before you close the filters dialogue. After this, all new > mails should automatically be moved as they're received. > > On 05/01/2011 09:49, KE4AVB wrote: > > > > > Alan, > > > First this subject will probably get beaten a lot more as time goes > > by. There is always going to novices at this coming here and other > > places for help. Not all users know about the pop3 standard; they just > > want to able to get their mail. All we can and need to do is stick > > together and help other. > > > Second, I not knocking the webmail author any at all. He and the > > others (several are list in the xpi) have done very good at getting > > the xpi's working. From what your saying is that are limitations that > > xpi's are currently unable to get around in TB as far as automating > > some things and it must be done message filters. > > > When I click Help on Thunderbird it only briefly references message > > filters. With trial and error approach I did finally found that I had > > to use the custom feature and setup a X-folder message header option. > > > I am by no means anywhere near expert on TB or and even less on the > > pop3 protocol. Personally I learning more each day about TB through > > both with online help plus trial and error. Probably most 50+ people > > wouldn't even attempt to create a new xpi program to work with webmail > > add-on especially without any formal programming training but I going > > to give it a good try. I am usually fairly good at figuring out > > puzzles. > > > To me if there was a complete Detailed Thunderbird Manual would be a > > little nice,. I have yet find one. If know where I can download a > > detail manual on TB and the webmail add-on please let me know. > > > I am trying to setup an extension for another webmail site add-on > > here. So far the only way I found to get it done is to tear other > > xpi's apart and study them plus trial error approach to programming > > one. Hoping in a few weeks to start experimenting accessing the > > webmail account. I have got the about section working and now working > > setting up an options section as time permits here. With a lot more > > research I yet might get it to work. > > > Eugene > > --
