netscape 4.79 filters

I'm trying to filter some of my email to trash but, but all email goes there. How do I correct?

 

Welcome to the Forum, lbfoto!

Hi lbfoto,

Could you give us more specifics on the filters you are using, i.e., are you using Subject of the Message .. Contains ... etc. and directed the Filter to the Trash Folder correctly?

Here is a Netscape KB Article which is an excellent Guideline for creating Mail Filters:
http://www.ufaq.org/commonly/mail_filters.html

Thanks!

Ramona

 

I'm using "sender of message ", "contains "(last part of message, starting w/@), Checked "any of the following ", not using "description ".

The problem is all my unfiltered email is also sent to "trash" instead of "inbox" when downloading. Email filtering was working o.k. b/4 this.

 

Hi Ibfoto,

Another thread you might want to look at is:

grandpa's e-mail filter question

I used Brett's suggestion and it works fine. Basically, I set up an acceptance filter for every e-mail address I want to see (I have about 90 of them). Each filter says "if the sender of the message contains (e-mail address) then move to folder inbox" (you can move to a different folder if you want). With Netscape 4.78 which I have, you can set up 5 addresses per filter. At the end I have one filter which says "If the to or CC of the message contains (your e-mail address) then delete" and another which says "If the to or CC of the message doesn't contain (your e-mail address) then delete ". The result is that all the accepted ones are in the inbox and all others are in the trash folder, which you can check before emptying.

It's a bit tedious to set up, but it works. I hope this helps, and please post if you have any questions.

grandpa