On 2022-01-19 11:54:38 Michael wrote:

On Wednesday 19 January 2022 10:22:21 am c. marlow wrote:

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Hi Ya'll!

WOW switching to KMAIL was EASY!

I exported the folders one at a time from Claws by going to FILE > EXPORT FOLDER TO MBOX ( I believe it was?) And then in KMAIL I went to FILE > IMPORT and select the 2nd option for MBOXES and viola! done.

My question is now, which option do I use for Filters?

POP filtering? under SETTINGS > CONFIGURE POP FILTERS

or MESSAGE > CREATE FILTER

Background Info:

ALL POP accounts

Hi Chris, (Welcome to TDE!)

It depends :)

I'm sure someone will correct me with better details.

• POP is (AFAIK) for filtering on the mail server, such that you can

completely not download and delete messages off the mail server.

• MESSAGE filters are done locally. I use these exclusivly, as then even

stuff I think is 'trash' just goes to the trash folder, so I can retrieve it as needed.

Note!: Do make a full backup of your mail before creating filters (of any kind) as one typo, or miss click in a drop down, and you can delete mail you might want to keep.

Best, Michael

I also use only POP for my email. There are two ways to set up filters for this: 1. Right-click on a message; put your cursor on Create Filter; choose the most appropriate method for matching this kind of message, usually From or Subject (or Mailing-list if it appears). Clicking on one of these will build a local filter entry. 2. Go to Settings => Configure Filters... and build a new filter manually. In either case, you will have to decide what folder to put the message in, where in the list of filters it should be evaluated, and possibly what to call it. You can also optionally modify the subject to strip off things like [trinity-users] or such; and in the Advanced tab of the filter you can do some other things, notably add the filter to the filter menu so you can test it by itself instead of applying all of the filters; turn that off once it's working as you like. There's nothing to tell you to do it, but if you have set up the spam and virus filtering, you might want to put them at the bottom of the list so that the filters take care of the sources you trust before they are checked for spam/virus attributes. (They each have multiple parts; if you move them, don't get their parts out of order.)

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