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Organizing Your E-Mail
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Novell Confidential Manual (ENU) 21 December 2004
If you have several filters that match a single message, they are all applied to the message in order,
unless one of the filters has the Stop Processing action. If you use that action in a filter, the
messages that it affects are not touched by other filters.
When you first open the Filters dialog box, you are shown the list of filters sorted in the order in
which they will be applied. You can move them up and down in the priority list by clicking the Up
and Down buttons.
Editing Filters
1
Click Edit > Message Filters.
2
Select the filter to edit, then click Edit.
3
Make the desired corrections, then click OK twice.
Deleting Filters
1
Click Edit > Message Filters.
2
Select the filter to remove, then click Remove.
3
Click OK.
Using Search Folders
If filters aren’t flexible enough, or you find yourself performing the same search again and again,
consider a search folder. Search folders are an advanced way of viewing your e-mail messages
within Evolution. If you get a lot of mail or often forget where you put messages, search folders
can help you keep things organized.
A search folder is really a hybrid of all the other organizational tools: it looks like a folder, it acts
like a search, and you set it up like a filter. In other words, a conventional folder actually contains
messages, but a search folder is a view of messages that might be in several different folders. The
messages it contains are determined on the fly using a set of criteria you choose in advance.
As messages that meet the search folder criteria arrive or are deleted, Evolution automatically
adjusts the search folder contents. When you delete a message, it is erased from the folder in which
it actually exists, as well as any search folders that display it.