Re: Claws-Mail filters -

Monday, 5 March 2018

Hello Bob,

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:35:04 -0500 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)fastmail.us&gt; wrote:

...
 On 03/05/18 10:11, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
 > OK, let me serve you the piece of cake :-)
 >
 > 1. Configuration -> Filtering
 > 2. Give the filter in question a name (any name will do)
 > 3. Hit the upper define button to define the condition on which the filter should
act.
 > 4. If you for example want to filter messages from a certain user press the
"Match
 > Criteria" pull down and select "Header"
 > 5. Now you can select which message header to use by pressing the "Name"
pull down and in
 > the case of matching a user's mail address select "From" and enter the
user's address in
 > the empty box below the "Name" box.
 > 6. Now press "Add" and "OK"
 > 7. You have now defined the filter condition and you remain the define what the
filter
 > should do. Press the lower define button.
 > 8. It comes up with the action "Move" as default. Press the
"Action" pull down to see the
 > various possible actions. Select one of them and pick the target destination through
the
 > "Select" button.
 > 9. Once the destination  is selected you press "OK", then "Add"
and "OK"-
 > 10. Your filter is now defined and you activate it by pressing "Add" an
"OK".
 >
 > Have fun.
 >
 > --
 > Regards,
 > Erik P. Olsen  

 .

 Thanks to all for the help.

 So far so good. I have several filters working and displaying incoming new messages in
the sub-directories I've created. But I still have 785 earlier messages in the
fastmail inbox that I would like to run through those filters and have not found how to do
that? 
I already gave you a clue about how to do that in another email (even,
twice).

1) select the emails to filter
2) Tools/Filter selected messages

That will do it, provided that your filter rules don't expect messages
to be unread or new (since they are from a former incorporation, they
aren't new anymore, even if you can set them the unread status).

Regards,

-- 
wwp