[pmmail-list] Filter emails and move them to folder of ANOTHER account possible?

[Richard Beeson]

You can copy (not move) an incoming message to another folder in the same account, or to another account altogether, by using the 
"bounce" function. Or you can move it to another folder in the same account by using the "move" function. Set up a filter for the 
emails you want to bounce or move, and they'll be sent unaltered to the destination folder/account. Be sure to put the "bounce" and 
"move" filters ahead of any other filters that effect those particular emails. The execution of the filters is sequential.

Regarding your other question, you can change the subject line of an email by setting up a "set subject" action in the filter list for 
those emails. The emails will then have the subject you dictate. In advanced filtering, you can use boolean options to cover more 
than one type of incoming header. The advanced filters are very useful in PM Mail, and are one of the main reasons I continue to use 
it. You can also filter outgoing mails so they are sent to specific folders automatically, a feature that Thunderbird, for instance, lacks. 
I hate having to organize mail into folders manually.

The filters can also be used manually if you need to catch up with a new filtering definition to move old emails. Just check the 
"manual" box when you define the filter.

R.


On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:48:16 +0200 (MES), L.Willms wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:25:32 +0200 Ben Stover wrote:
>> 
>> As far as I can see I cannot move incoming msg in a filter rule to a folder 
>on ANOTHER account.
>> Is that correct?

>   Yes. 

>> Maybe there is a (non-manual) workaround/trick for this

>   You might call a script which does move the message. What you can't do, 
>though, with that script, is to index the folder you move the message to. You 
>will have to do it manually. 
>  
>   On OS/2, I have a REXX script which did change the subject line of an 
>incoming message (but which was more or less in vain, since PMmail already 
>had scanned the message for the items to put in the index), and another 
>script as a custom send script which would change the FROM header and 
>move the message to the outbox of another account. 

>   On Windows I would recommend to use VBscript instead of REXX. Don't be 
>confused by PMmail talking about "REXX exits" in the configuration; this can 
>be any executable file. 


>Cheers, 
>Lüko Willms
>-----------------------------------------------
>Frankfurt/Main  



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