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Not as complicated as some think
Authored by: wfolta on Sep 20, '02 05:30:52PM

Some people have made it pretty complicated, but they may be missing the fact that you have two dimensions for filtering:

1) The filters.

2) The order of the filters.

SO, I have my junk mail filter at the top of the list, and also "Delete these suckers because they're jerks". These filters obviously stop all following filters from running, since I don't want other filters rescuing these messages from their deserved fates.

Then I color code emails from certain people whose opinion I highly respect. (I.e. the gurus on various email lists.) These filters obviously let control fall through to following rules, since they only color code, not distribute.

Then I have all my email lists, which depend on the list as to how you route them. Some lists (proper lists) have a certain envelope recipient, so you add "Any Recipient" for them. (Because they may be TO or CC'd.) Others have specific REPLY-TO or FROM. These filters stop filtering at this point, so the mail isn't taken out of the proper mailbox.

Then I have a filter for each email account that looks for Any Recipient and specifies my email address for that account. This colorizes the email according to the account, then places it in "Personal Incoming".

Messages that aren't caught by any filter are left in IN.



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