Forwarding in the filters

[welkinator]

Hi,

I want to pass on a couple of news letters to members of my family so
I set up a filter to do two things: firstly, Forward To (email addy)
and then Transfer To (mailbox) - lastly, Skip Rest.

But Eudora is not creating a forwarded email. They are not in the
Outbox nor does the Forwarded indicator arrow show up in the Status
colume. Eudora DOES Transfer correctly.

I have tried to Transfer first and Forward second. And i have tried
leaving off Skip Rest. Also I have tried placing the filter at the
start of my filter list.

I have about two hundred items in my filter list but all the rest use
only the Transfer To function.

Any suggestions?

BTW how do you turn on the filter report? Mine is always empty.

Oh, yes, I am using Paid Edition 7.1.0.9

....Bryce

[Ajo Wissink]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:16:35 -0500, welkinator
<welkinat...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I want to pass on a couple of news letters to members of my family so
>I set up a filter to do two things: firstly, Forward To (email addy)
>and then Transfer To (mailbox) - lastly, Skip Rest.

That is the correct way to do it. Have you selected Incoming and/or
Manual in the filter window?

>But Eudora is not creating a forwarded email. They are not in the
>Outbox nor does the Forwarded indicator arrow show up in the Status
>colume. Eudora DOES Transfer correctly.

Bizarre

>I have tried to Transfer first and Forward second.

I think that in that case there may be nothing left to forward.

> And i have tried leaving off Skip Rest.

No, the message would then go through all the remaining filters.

>Also I have tried placing the filter at the start of my filter list.

Good.

>I have about two hundred items in my filter list but all the rest use
>only the Transfer To function.
>
>Any suggestions?

Make sure there is no error in the email address.

>BTW how do you turn on the filter report? Mine is always empty.

Tools > Options > Getting Attention > Generate filter report

Ajo Wissink

[Sid Elbow]

On 8/15/2016 8:16 PM, welkinator wrote:


> But Eudora is not creating a forwarded email. They are not in the
> Outbox nor does the Forwarded indicator arrow show up in the Status
> colume. Eudora DOES Transfer correctly.

We're led to assume from this that the forwardee didn't receive the
forwarded message .... yet it *is* an assumption. Can you confirm that?

(The difference being that, if the message was forwarded but not showing
in the out-box, it points to a different problem than not-forwarded and
not showing in the out-box).

[Micky]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:00:14 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:16:35 -0500, welkinator <welkinat...@gmail.com>

>declaimed the following:

>
>
>>I have tried to Transfer first and Forward second. And i have tried
>>leaving off Skip Rest. Also I have tried placing the filter at the
>>start of my filter list.
>>

> Skip Rest just means "don't look at any more filters"
>
> Never used "Forward To" so I don't know if in/out/manual has any
>significance.

>
>>
>>BTW how do you turn on the filter report? Mine is always empty.
>

> By having a "Notify User" "[x] in report" step in each filter you want
>reported...

I know what In Report would mean, but what does As Normal mean,
especially since both boxes can be checked at once?

And what is the notification in the report supposed to say? The only
notifications in the filter report that I've ever seen are mailboxes
to which email has been moved. Does it really say something has
been forwarded, replied to, or redirected. (I know, I can test this
myself, but this is only here for completeness. The previous and
following paragraphs are why I'm posting.)

Katrina said I must be wrong about some or all of this, and after a
year, I may have details a trifle wrong, but a year ago I made a
filter at the very end, for emails that werent' filtered anywhere
else, using Notify User, with each and then both boxes checked, and it
didn't work. I don't know what the notification would have said,
because these were emails I had done nothing to!! ??

Then I changed the line to Transfer to In. I'm told this can cause
recursion problems, but I hadn't heard that then and at least for me,
it hasn't. I thought since transfers to other mailboxes got listed
in the filter report, so would these. Didn't work.

Then, and this is for Welkinator, I started putting filters that made
sounds in order to track what was happening, and that did work to the
extent that it did make the sounds. I have one sound up at the
start, chord.wav, before any mail is moved, and that sounds every time
mail is retrieved, though only once, even if there are several emails
(I dont' understand that.),

And later I put in a sound in the same filter where I had one or the
other of the two actions, Notify or Transfer to In, and that didn't
work either, didn't show up in the filter report, though it might have
made the sound.

Finally, I put all three things in one filter, play the sound
(notify.wav), Transfer to In, Notify User as Normal and In Report,
and then Skip Rest**, and THAT WORKS. It counts the number of emails
remaining in the inbox***, and notes it in the filter report, so I
can, for example, add up all the numbers in the filter report and it
will match the number of emails that were to be dl'd (subject maybe to
a small number of exceptions) and I like it a lot.

***Well, they are in the Inbox and then get moved to the Inbox. We
need a philosopher to tell us if they are remaining there.

**whether I need that or not.

It seems both Notify and Transfer are needed to get that transfer into
the filter report, as unlikely as that seems. And that sounds were
more help in testing than Notify was, in this case.

And the sounds, I like them a lot too, so I've kept them even though
there is no debugging to do.