Re: Thunderbird Message Filter Rules

On 02/16/2012 12:41 PM, Don wrote:
> On 2/16/2012 11:51 AM, Neil wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>
>>> I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only.
>>> Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine.
>>> We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days
>>
>> I take it that "Leave on POP3 server" is on but "Until I delete
>> them" is
>> turned off, in which case you can filter the message headers and choose
>> to either delete them or download them as appropriate. This will then
>> avoid downloading entire messages that you don't want.
>>
> Neil,
>
> I have just written a Message Filter called "Deleted by Subject" that
> contains, for now, eight message groups that are deleted upon arrival
> at my computer, only. They are downloaded but not removed from our POP
> server. Works for me, just fills up the Trash but that is easy to take
> care of. Should my wife ever need to use my computer to read these, I
> can either disable the filter or she can check out the trash!
>
> Don


While we're on the subject of msgFilterRules, am I the only one who 
would find a simple search feature useful? It's a PITA having to keep 
a separate copy of the file to load into a text editor every time I 
want to find a filter.


Brian.