Hi Bill,

I selected the folder I wanted to have the filter run on in the folders list 
and then went Tools > Message Filters.

Does this help?

Gav

On 25/01/2010, at 11:10 AM, Bill Parker wrote:

> 
> Thansk gavin,
> 
> 
> Been thus far many times.    It asks for a "target folder" and there is 
> nothing i can find that will make that target folder for me.
> 
> 
> Bill
> On 25/01/2010, at 10:45 AM, Gavin Criddle wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> Thunderbird has filters which should be able to achieve this for you.
>> 
>> Tools > Message Filters will open up the interface.
>> 
>> I'm on Thunderbird 3 at the moment so it may be in a different spot but 
>> version 2 does have filters.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Gav
>> 
>> On 25/01/2010, at 10:39 AM, Bill Parker wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I'd appreciate any help on this.     I use Mac MAIL as a matter of course.
>>> 
>>> I also have to use Thunderbird on another machine (iMac 9,1 /OS 10.5.7/ 
>>> Thunderbird 2.0.0.23)
>>> 
>>> How do I set up sub mail boxesin Thunderbird  so that when emails arrive 
>>> from specified senders they get automatically routed to particular 
>>> mailboxes?
>>> 
>>> It is EASY using Mail but I have spent a few hours trying this with 
>>> Thunderbird with no success.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
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