Don wrote:
> Under Filter Rules there are at present:
> Perform these actions:
> Delete From POP Server
> Fetch From POP Server
> I would like to have:
> Do Not Download From POP Server
> or words to that affect
> What are my chances?
If you change your server settings to download headers only, then you can use the fetch from POP server action on those messages that you do want downloaded. Or have I misunderstood your question?
>> Under Filter Rules there are at present:
>> Perform these actions:
>> Delete From POP Server
>> Fetch From POP Server
>> I would like to have:
>> Do Not Download From POP Server
>> or words to that affect
>> What are my chances?
> If you change your server settings to download headers only, then you
> can use the fetch from POP server action on those messages that you do
> want downloaded. Or have I misunderstood your question?
Neil,
I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only.
Under OE I was able to write messages rules based on "Subject Line Content" to prevent the downloading of large numbers of Yahoo & other groups, that my wife subscribes to, unto my computer. We are not going to go to separate email accounts, for many reasons, to solve the problem. Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine. I could write rules/filters that would move all of these directly to a local folder or trash as they are downloaded. We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days, just in case of a whoops!
Don wrote:
> I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only. > Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine.
> We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days
I take it that "Leave on POP3 server" is on but "Until I delete them" is turned off, in which case you can filter the message headers and choose to either delete them or download them as appropriate. This will then avoid downloading entire messages that you don't want.
>> I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only.
>> Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine.
>> We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days
> I take it that "Leave on POP3 server" is on but "Until I delete them" is
> turned off, in which case you can filter the message headers and choose
> to either delete them or download them as appropriate. This will then
> avoid downloading entire messages that you don't want.
Neil,
I have just written a Message Filter called "Deleted by Subject" that contains, for now, eight message groups that are deleted upon arrival at my computer, only. They are downloaded but not removed from our POP server. Works for me, just fills up the Trash but that is easy to take care of. Should my wife ever need to use my computer to read these, I can either disable the filter or she can check out the trash!
> On 2/16/2012 11:51 AM, Neil wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>> I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only.
>>> Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine.
>>> We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days
>> I take it that "Leave on POP3 server" is on but "Until I delete
>> them" is
>> turned off, in which case you can filter the message headers and choose
>> to either delete them or download them as appropriate. This will then
>> avoid downloading entire messages that you don't want.
> Neil,
> I have just written a Message Filter called "Deleted by Subject" that
> contains, for now, eight message groups that are deleted upon arrival
> at my computer, only. They are downloaded but not removed from our POP
> server. Works for me, just fills up the Trash but that is easy to take
> care of. Should my wife ever need to use my computer to read these, I
> can either disable the filter or she can check out the trash!
> Don
While we're on the subject of msgFilterRules, am I the only one who would find a simple search feature useful? It's a PITA having to keep a separate copy of the file to load into a text editor every time I want to find a filter.
> On 02/16/2012 12:41 PM, Don wrote:
>> On 2/16/2012 11:51 AM, Neil wrote:
>>> Don wrote:
>>>> I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only.
>>>> Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine.
>>>> We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days
>>> I take it that "Leave on POP3 server" is on but "Until I delete
>>> them" is
>>> turned off, in which case you can filter the message headers and choose
>>> to either delete them or download them as appropriate. This will then
>>> avoid downloading entire messages that you don't want.
>> Neil,
>> I have just written a Message Filter called "Deleted by Subject" that
>> contains, for now, eight message groups that are deleted upon arrival
>> at my computer, only. They are downloaded but not removed from our POP
>> server. Works for me, just fills up the Trash but that is easy to take
>> care of. Should my wife ever need to use my computer to read these, I
>> can either disable the filter or she can check out the trash!
>> Don
> While we're on the subject of msgFilterRules, am I the only one who
> would find a simple search feature useful? It's a PITA having to keep a
> separate copy of the file to load into a text editor every time I want
> to find a filter.
> Brian.
Brian,
All of my filters are listed under Tools/Message Filters, therefore, easily found. Not sure why you are having a problem.
>> While we're on the subject of msgFilterRules, am I the only one who
>> would find a simple search feature useful? It's a PITA having to keep a
>> separate copy of the file to load into a text editor every time I want
>> to find a filter.
>> Brian.
> Brian,
> All of my filters are listed under Tools/Message Filters, therefore,
> easily found. Not sure why you are having a problem.
> I am running TB 10.0.2.
Don,
Perhaps the reason might be that you've defined a few less filters than I have?
Currently, my msgFilterRules.dat weighs in at just over 200 KB.
> On 03/04/2012 02:34 PM, Don wrote:
>> On 3/4/2012 8:22 AM, brian wrote:
>>> While we're on the subject of msgFilterRules, am I the only one who
>>> would find a simple search feature useful? It's a PITA having to keep a
>>> separate copy of the file to load into a text editor every time I want
>>> to find a filter.
>>> Brian.
>> Brian,
>> All of my filters are listed under Tools/Message Filters, therefore,
>> easily found. Not sure why you are having a problem.
>> I am running TB 10.0.2.
> Don,
> Perhaps the reason might be that you've defined a few less filters than
> I have?
> Currently, my msgFilterRules.dat weighs in at just over 200 KB.
