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The Filter-Rule Dialog

This dialog allows you to set up or edit an individual filtering rule, it contains of the following components:

You can add more pattern matching controls by pressing the [More] button, and you can delete the last pattern matching rule by pressing the [Less] button. The number of actions to execute is fixed to one.

You can use several condition and connect them via logical AND and OR, optionally negating them by ticking the [Not] box. The following conditions can be tested for at present:

The possible actions which can be performed, are:

If you are not using a Trash folder, it is a good idea to add a rule at the end of the list of filtering rules, that always expunges all messages. For testing filters, you can leave that rule disabled, an all messages will get treated and marked as deleted, but stay around. Only when expunge is executed, will they really disappear in the original mailbox. Notice, if you are using a Trash folder, this does not apply, as messages won't be marked as deleted but moved straight to Trash.


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Charlie & 2001-04-19