Once you have a nice folder hierarchy in place, you'll probably want Sylpheed-Claws to sort your incoming emails automatically, in order to avoid having to move messages manually each time they arrive. For this you can use the Filtering feature.
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- You will find the filtering preferences via the <quote>Configuration</quote> menu, <quote>Filtering</quote> item. From this dialogue you will be able to define new rules, modify or delete existing rules, and re-order them. Filtering rules are defined by three things: a name, a condition, and an action. The name format is optional, it's there to help you identify your existing rules. The condition format is an expression defining what Sylpheed-Claws should look for when filtering emails, for example: 'to matchcase sylpheed-claws-users' is for messages sent to any address containing 'sylpheed-claws-users'. You can easily define conditions by clicking the <quote>Define...</quote> button at the right of the field. The third part of a filtering rule is the action, which instructs Sylpheed-Claws what to do with emails matching the condition we just defined. For example, 'mark_as_read' marks the mail as read as soon as it arrives in your inbox, or 'move #mh/Mailbox/Friends' moves the mail to your 'Friends' subfolder. Here, too, a <quote>Define...</quote> button is available to help you define the action to take.
+ You will find the filtering preferences via the <quote>Configuration</quote> menu, <quote>Filtering</quote> item. From this dialogue you will be able to define new rules, modify or delete existing rules, re-order the rules, and enable/disable them. Filtering rules are defined by four things: the enabled status, a name, a condition, and an action. All disabled rules are simply ignored. The name format is optional, it's there to help you identify your existing rules. The condition format is an expression defining what Sylpheed-Claws should look for when filtering emails, for example: 'to matchcase sylpheed-claws-users' is for messages sent to any address containing 'sylpheed-claws-users'. You can easily define conditions by clicking the <quote>Define...</quote> button at the right of the field. The third part of a filtering rule is the action, which instructs Sylpheed-Claws what to do with emails matching the condition we just defined. For example, 'mark_as_read' marks the mail as read as soon as it arrives in your inbox, or 'move #mh/Mailbox/Friends' moves the mail to your 'Friends' subfolder. Here, too, a <quote>Define...</quote> button is available to help you define the action to take.
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Once you have defined the rule, you can add it to the list of rules with the <quote>Add</quote> button. Don't forget that the order of the rules is important: if Sylpheed-Claws finds a rule suitable for an email that either moves or deletes the email, it will stop looking for further rules for that email. This is why, at the right of the rules list, you will find four buttons allowing the re-ordering of rules. The rules can also be reordered by drag 'n' drop.
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- All filtering rules can be disabled and re-enabled later. All disabled rules are simply ignored while filtering is processing.
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There is also a quick method of creating filtering rules based on the selected message. After selecting a mail of the type you want to filter, choose <quote>Create filter rule...</quote> from the <quote>Tools</quote> menu, and choose a type from the submenu: <quote>Automatically</quote> mainly helps for mailing-lists posts, <quote>by From</quote> creates a filter based on the sender of the email, <quote>by To</quote> creates a filter based on the recipient, and <quote>by Subject</quote> creates a filter based on the subject. Each one of these types of filtering has its advantages, it's up to you to find out what would be the more practical. Usually, <quote>by From</quote> is nice to sort out your regular contacts' mails, whereas <quote>by To</quote> is more useful to sort mails sent to your different accounts.
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