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authorAaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>2001-10-20 05:53:07 +0800
committerAaron Weber <aaron@src.gnome.org>2001-10-20 05:53:07 +0800
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Many changes w/r/t IMAP and importation and encryption.
2001-10-19 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com> * C/usage-mail-org.sgml: Many changes w/r/t IMAP and importation and encryption. * C/usage-contact.sgml: A few changes, w/r/t import. * C/usage-mainwindow.sgml: IMAP stuff. * C/usage-exec-summary.sgml: More changes. Update to intro sect. * C/usage-mainwindow.sgml: Assorted fixes. Kevin, there's a FIXME for ya in here. svn path=/trunk/; revision=13806
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@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
to help you do it.
</para>
+<!-- Kevin, i'd suggest putting an "IMporting old mail" section here." -->
+
<sect1 id="usage-mail-organize-columns">
<title>Sorting Mail with Column Headers</title>
<para>
@@ -436,16 +438,27 @@
<example id="filter-example">
<title>Using a Filter to Avoid Spam</title>
<para>
- The majority of bulk mail is tagged with the
+ A good deal of bulk mail is eventually tagged with the
<computeroutput>Precedence: Bulk</computeroutput> header at
- one point or another. Some of these messages, of course,
- could be in mailing lists you've subscribed to, but many of
- them are unsolicited commercial email.
+ one point or another. Not all of it is, of course, and
+ there are "good" messages (mailing lists you subscribe to,
+ for example) that are also considered "Bulk" mail.
+ However, if you filter out all the mail with that header,
+ you'll catch a lot of the mail you don't want to get.
</para>
<para>
- To catch them and put them all in one place, create a
- new filter for incoming mail. Then:
+ To catch them and automatically mark them for deletion, do
+ the following:
<orderedlist>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Filters</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Click <guibutton>New</guibutton>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>
Set the first part of your search critera to look in a <guilabel>Specific header</guilabel>.
</para></listitem>
@@ -469,11 +482,9 @@
folder where you'd like to place bulk mail.
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- If you like, add an action and choose <guilabel>Stop
- Processing</guilabel> if you'd like this message to be
- ignored by all other filters.
- </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para> If you like, add another action and
+ choose <guilabel>Delete</guilabel>.
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Click OK. You're done.
@@ -792,16 +803,15 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you want multiple criteria for this filter, press <guibutton>Add
- criterion</guibutton> and repeat the previous step.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+<para>
+Remote folders are considered active if you are connected to the
+server; you must be connected to your mail server for the vFolder to
+include any messages from that source.
+</para>
<figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule">
<title>Selecting a vFolder Rule</title>