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@@ -14,26 +14,42 @@
<para>
By default, the message list has columns with the following
headings: an envelope icon indicating whether you have read
- or replied to a message (closed for unread, open for read,
- and open with an arrow on it to indicate you've sent a
- reply), an exclamation point indicating priority, and the
+ or replied to a message, an exclamation point indicating priority, and the
<guilabel>From</guilabel>, <guilabel>Subject</guilabel>, and
<guilabel>Date</guilabel> fields. You can change their order
- and remove them by dragging and dropping them. You can add
- new ones with the <guimenuitem>Field Chooser</guimenuitem>
- item in the right click menu for the column headings.
+ and remove them by dragging and dropping them.
+
+ To add columns to sort by:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Right click on the bar
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guimenuitem>Add a Column</guimenuitem>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click and drag a column you want into the toolbar. A red arrow will
+ show you where the column will be placed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
</para>
<para>
Right-click on one of the column headers to get a list of
options:
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Sorts the messages top to bottom.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Sorts the messages top to bottom.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem></term>
@@ -111,7 +127,7 @@
right below the toolbar, and choose a search type:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Body or subject contains:</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Body or subject contains</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will search message subjects and the messages
@@ -121,7 +137,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term> <guilabel>Body contains:</guilabel> </term>
+ <term> <guilabel>Body contains</guilabel> </term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will search only in message text, not the subject
@@ -130,7 +146,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Subject contains:</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Subject contains</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This will show you messages where the search text is
@@ -140,7 +156,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Body does not contain:</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Body does not contain</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This finds every email message that does not have the
@@ -151,7 +167,7 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Subject does not contain:</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Subject does not contain</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This finds every mail whose subject does not contain
@@ -214,354 +230,289 @@
to say, it's faster and more flexible than an actual person
with a pile of envelopes.
</para>
- <para>
- Most often, you'll want to have
- <application>Evolution</application> put mail into different
- folders, but you can have it do almost anything you like.
- People who get lots of mail, or who often need to refer to old
- messages, find filters especially helpful, but they can greatly benefit
- anybody who gets more than a few messages a day. To
- create a filter, open the <interface>filter
- assistant</interface> by selecting
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>Mail Filters</guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice>.
- </para>
-
- <figure id="usage-mail-filters-fig-assist">
- <title>The Filter Assistant</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>The Filter Assistant</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/filter-assist-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
+ <sect2 id="usage-mail-org-filters-new">
+ <title>Making New Filters</title>
<para>
- The <interface>filter assistant</interface> window contains a
- list of your current filters, sorted by the order in which
- they are used. From the drop-down box at the top of the
- window, choose <guilabel>Incoming</guilabel> to display
- filters for incoming mail, and <guilabel>Outgoing</guilabel>
- for those which sort only outgoing mail.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <interface>filter assistant</interface> also has a set of
- buttons:
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Add</guibutton> &mdash; Create a new filter.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> &mdash; Edit an existing filter.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> &mdash; Delete the selected filter.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para> <guibutton>Up</guibutton> &mdash; Move the
- selected filter up in the list so it gets applied first.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Down</guibutton> &mdash; Move the selected filter down
- in the list, so it comes into play later.
- </para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- If you don't have any filters set up, the only one of those
- buttons you can click is <guibutton>Add</guibutton>, which
- will open a dialog to let you add a filter rule. If you do
- have filters, you can either add a new filter rule, or select
- one from your list and click <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>.
- </para>
- <para>
- The filter rule editor, shown in <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-filters-fig-new">, is where you'll
- actually create your filtering rule.
-
- <figure id="usage-mail-filters-fig-new">
- <title>Creating a new Filter</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Creating a new Filter</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/filter-new-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- </para>
- <para>
- Enter a name for your filter in the <guilabel>Rule
- Name</guilabel> field, and then begin choosing the criteria
- you'd like to use as you sort your mail. Choose how many
- criteria you'd like by pressing <guibutton>Add
- Criterion</guibutton> and <guibutton>Remove
- Criterion</guibutton>. If you have multiple criteria, you
- should then decide whether to have the filter do its job only
- <guilabel>if all criteria are met</guilabel>, or <guilabel>if
- any criteria are met</guilabel>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For each filter criterion, you must first select
- which of the following parts of the message you want the filter to
- examine:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Sender</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- The sender's address.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Recipients</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- The recipients of the message.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Subject</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- The subject line of the message.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Specific Header</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- The filter can look at any header you
- want, even obscure or custom ones. Enter the header name
- in the first text box, and put your search text in the
- second one.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Message Body</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Search in the actual text of the message.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Expression</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- For programmers only: match a message according to an
- expression you write in the Scheme language, used to
- define filters in Evolution.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Date Sent</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para> Filter messages according to the date on
- which they were sent: First, choose the conditions you
- want a message to meet &mdash; <guilabel>before</guilabel>
- a given time, <guilabel>after</guilabel> it, and so forth.
- Then, choose the time. The filter will compare the
- message's time-stamp to the system clock when the filter
- is run, or to a specific time and date you choose from a
- calendar. You can even have it look for messages within a
- range of time relative to the filter &mdash perhaps you're
- looking for messages less than two days old.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Date Recieved</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- This works the same way as the <guilabel>Date Sent</guilabel>
- option, except that it compares the time you got the message
- with the dates you specify.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Emails have a standard priority range from -3 (least
- important) to 3 (most important). You can have filters set the
- priority of messages you recieve, and then have other filters
- applied only to those messages which have a certain priority.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Regex Match</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you know your way around a <glossterm
- linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or
- regular expression, put your knowledge to use here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Source</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Filter messages according the server you got them from.
- You can enter a URL or choose one from the drop-down
- list. This ability is only relevant if you use more
- than one mail source.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Now, tell it what to do with those messages. If you want more
- actions, click <guibutton>Add Action</guibutton>; if you want
- fewer, click <guibutton>Remove Action</guibutton>. And choose
- again:
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Copy to Folder</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- If you select this item, <application>Evolution</application>
- will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the
- <guibutton>&lt;click here to select a folder&gt;</guibutton> button
- to select a folder.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Move to Folder</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- If you select this item, <application>Evolution</application>
- will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the
- <guibutton>&lt;click here to select a folder&gt;</guibutton> button
- to select a folder.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Forward to Address</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Select this, enter an address, and the addressee will
- get a copy of the message.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Delete</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Marks the message for deletion. You can still get the message
- back, at least until you <guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem> your
- mail yourself.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Stop Processing</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Select this if you want to tell all other filters to ignore
- this message, because whatever you've done with it so far
- is plenty.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Assign Color</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para>
- Select this item, and <application>Evolution</application>
- will mark the message with whatever color you please.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Assign Score</guilabel></term>
- <listitem><para> If you know that all mail with
- "important" somewhere in the message body line is
- important, you can give it a high priority score. In a subsequent filter you can
- then arrange your messages by their priority score.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
+ To create a new filter:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Filters</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Name your filter in the <guilabel>Rule name</guilabel> field.
+ For each filter criterion, you must first select
+ which of the following parts of the message you want the filter to
+ examine:
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Sender - The sender's address.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Recipients - The recipients of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Subject - The subject line of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Specific Header - The filter can look at any header you
+ want, even obscure or custom ones. Enter the header name
+ in the first text box, and put your search text in the
+ second one.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Message Body - Search in the actual text of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Expression - For programmers only: match a message according to an
+ expression you write in the Scheme language, used to
+ define filters in Evolution.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para> Date sent - Filter messages according to the date on
+ which they were sent: First, choose the conditions you
+ want a message to meet &mdash; <guilabel>before</guilabel>
+ a given time, <guilabel>after</guilabel> it, and so forth.
+ Then, choose the time. The filter will compare the
+ message's time-stamp to the system clock when the filter
+ is run, or to a specific time and date you choose from a
+ calendar. You can even have it look for messages within a
+ range of time relative to the filter &mdash perhaps you're
+ looking for messages less than two days old.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Date Recieved - This works the same way as the <guilabel>Date Sent</guilabel>
+ option, except that it compares the time you got the message
+ with the dates you specify.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Score - Emails have a standard priority range from -3 (least
+ important) to 3 (most important). You can have filters set the
+ priority of messages you recieve, and then have other filters
+ applied only to those messages which have a certain priority.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Size (kb) - Sorts based on the size of the message in kilobytes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Status - Filters according to the status of a message, such as
+ 'New'.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Attachments - Create a filter whether or not you have an
+ attachment in the email.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Mailing List - Filter based on the mailing list it came from.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Regex Match - If you know your way around a <glossterm
+ linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or
+ regular expression, put your knowledge to use here.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Source Account - Filter messages according the server you got them from.
+ You can enter a URL or choose one from the drop-down
+ list. This ability is only relevant if you use more
+ than one mail source.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select the criterion for the condition.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you want multiple criterion for this filter, press <guibutton>Add
+ criterion</guibutton> and repeat the previous step.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select the actions for the filter in the <guilabel>Then</guilabel>
+ section. You can select any of the following options.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Move to Folder - If you select this item, <application>Evolution</application>
+ will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the
+ <guibutton>&lt;click here to select a folder&gt;</guibutton> button
+ to select a folder.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Copy to Folder - If you select this item, <application>Evolution</application>
+ will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the
+ <guibutton>&lt;click here to select a folder&gt;</guibutton> button
+ to select a folder.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Forward to Address - Select this, enter an address, and the addressee will
+ get a copy of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Delete - Marks the message for deletion. You can still get the message
+ back, at least until you <guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem> your
+ mail yourself.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Stop Processing - Select this if you want to tell all other filters to ignore
+ this message, because whatever you've done with it so far
+ is plenty.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Assign Color - Select this item, and <application>Evolution</application>
+ will mark the message with whatever color you please.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Assign Score - If you know that all mail with
+ "important" somewhere in the message body line is
+ important, you can give it a high priority score. In a subsequent filter you can
+ then arrange your messages by their priority score.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set Status - If you want to add multiple actions for this filter, press
+ <guibutton>Add filter</guibutton> and repeat the previous step.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="filters-edit">
+ <title>Editing Filters</title>
<para>
- You're done. Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to use this
- filter, or <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> to close the window
- without saving any changes.
- </para>
-
-
-
- <!-- FIXME: This needs to be in there. But the feature is temporarily
- disabled and I don't know how it will be reimplemented.
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>When mail arrives:</guilabel> Select
- this option to have messages filtered as they
- arrive.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>When mail is sent:</guilabel> Select
- this option to filter your outgoing mail. You
- can use this feature to keep your
- <interface>Outbox</interface> as organized as
- your <interface>Inbox</interface>.
- </para>
+ To edit a filter:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenu>Filters</guimenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select the filter in the <guilabel>Filter Rules</guilabel> section
+ and press <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Change the desired settings.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Press <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </orderedlist>
</para>
-
- -->
-
- <note>
- <title>Notable Filter Features</title>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="filters-deleting">
+ <title>Deleting Filters</title>
<para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>
- Incoming email that your filters don't move goes into the Inbox;
- outgoing mail that they don't move ends up in the Sent folder.
+ To delete a filter:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenu>Filters</guimenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select the filter and press <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>.
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </orderedlist>
</para>
- </note>
-
- <sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-filters-mailing-lists">
- <title>Filtering by Mailing List</title>
<para>
- You can tell <application>Evolution</application> to filter by
- mailing list. This means that <application>Evolution</application>
- will look at the mailing list address, and find out automatically
- what list this is. If you are subscribed to mailing lists, you
- should use the <guibutton>Filter by List</guibutton> instead of by
- sender.
- <example>
- <title>Filter by List</title>
+ <note>
+ <title>Notable Filter Features</title>
<para>
- Kevin subscribes to bananas@ximian.com. However, there is also
- a bananas@ximian.org address. If he used a regular
- <guibutton>Filter by Sender</guibutton>, he would need to specify
- one for each address. However, <guibutton>Filter by
- List</guibutton> will recognize that both of them are the same
- list.
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Incoming email that your filters don't move goes into the Inbox;
+ outgoing mail that they don't move ends up in the Sent folder.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
- </example>
+ </note>
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
-
+
<sect1 id="usage-mail-organize-vFolders">
<title>Getting Really Organized with Virtual Folders</title>
<para>
@@ -623,58 +574,193 @@
<!-- (INSERT SCREENSHOT HERE: virtual folders in action) -->
+ <sect2 id="vfolder-create">
+ <title>Creating Virtual Folders</title>
<para>
- To create a virtual folder, select <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Virtual Folder
- Editor</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. This will bring up a
- dialog box that looks suspiciously like the filter window
- (for more information on filters, see <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-organize-filters">), and which
- presents you with a list of virtual folders you have previously
- created. If you have created any virtual folders, they are listed
- here, and you can select, edit or remove them if you wish.
- If you have not created any, there will be only one available
- option: click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a new
- Virtual Folder.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can enter a name for your virtual folder in the
- <guilabel>Name</guilabel>. Then, tell
- <application>Evolution</application> what messages to look
- for. This process is exactly like filter creation: decide
- between <guilabel>Match all parts</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Match any part</guilabel>, then choose what part of
- the message to look in, what sort of matching to perform, and
- specify exactly what it is that you want to find, be it a
- line of text, a score, a regular expression, or a particular date or
- range of dates.
- </para>
- <para>
- The second part, however, is slightly different. In the
- section of the window labelled <guilabel>Virtual Folder Sources
- </guilabel> is a list of folders in which
- <application>Evolution</application> will search for the
- contents of your vFolder. Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
- to add a folder, or <guibutton>Remove</guibutton> to remove
- one. That way, you can have your vFolder search in
- newsgroups, or just in one of your mailboxes, or just in a
- select few folders you've already screened with filters.
- </para>
- <para>
- The vFolder creation window is shown in <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
+ To create a virtual folder:
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Virtual Folder Editor</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Name your filter in the <guilabel>Rule name</guilabel> field.
+ For each filter criterion, you must first select
+ which of the following parts of the message you want the filter to
+ examine:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Sender - The sender's address.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Recipients - The recipients of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Subject - The subject line of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Specific Header - The filter can look at any header you
+ want, even obscure or custom ones. Enter the header name
+ in the first text box, and put your search text in the
+ second one.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Message Body - Search in the actual text of the message.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Expression - For programmers only: match a message according to an
+ expression you write in the Scheme language, used to
+ define filters in Evolution.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para> Date sent - Filter messages according to the date on
+ which they were sent: First, choose the conditions you
+ want a message to meet &mdash; <guilabel>before</guilabel>
+ a given time, <guilabel>after</guilabel> it, and so forth.
+ Then, choose the time. The filter will compare the
+ message's time-stamp to the system clock when the filter
+ is run, or to a specific time and date you choose from a
+ calendar. You can even have it look for messages within a
+ range of time relative to the filter &mdash perhaps you're
+ looking for messages less than two days old.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Date Recieved - This works the same way as the <guilabel>Date Sent</guilabel>
+ option, except that it compares the time you got the message
+ with the dates you specify.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Score - Emails have a standard priority range from -3 (least
+ important) to 3 (most important). You can have filters set the
+ priority of messages you recieve, and then have other filters
+ applied only to those messages which have a certain priority.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Size (kb) - Sorts based on the size of the message in kilobytes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Status - Filters according to the status of a message, such as
+ 'New'.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Attachments - Create a filter whether or not you have an
+ attachment in the email.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Mailing List - Filter based on the mailing list it came from.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Regex Match - If you know your way around a <glossterm
+ linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or
+ regular expression, put your knowledge to use here.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Source Account - Filter messages according the server you got them from.
+ You can enter a URL or choose one from the drop-down
+ list. This ability is only relevant if you use more
+ than one mail source.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select the criterion for the condition.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select the folder sources. You can select:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ specific folders only
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ If you select specific folders only, you need to specify the
+ source folders in the box below.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ all local folders
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ with all active remote folders
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ with all local and active folders
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you want multiple criterion for this filter, press <guibutton>Add
+ criterion</guibutton> and repeat the previous step.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
- <figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
- <title>Selecting a vFolder Rule</title>
- <screenshot>
+ <figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
+ <title>Selecting a vFolder Rule</title>
+ <screenshot>
<screeninfo>Creating a vFolder Rule</screeninfo>
<graphic fileref="fig/vfolder-createrule-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
+ </graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
</para>
- </sect1>
-<!--
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+ <!--
<sect1 id="usage-mail-subscriptions">
<title>Subscription Management</title>
<para>