To filter your mail into a folder you need to actually create the folder. To do this read the information about creating a new mail folder within the menus section. Goto the folder about filtering:
The are various ways of using Microdot's built-in to filter mails into the correct folders.
Filtering by subject is a good method to catch all mails that are directed about
a particular topic.
If, for example, you had something for sale and you placed a "for sale" advertisement within an online magazine (or even a paper magazine) you could put some text saying: if you want more information about X send an email to "joebloggs@thenet.com" with the subect header of "More Info".
As long as everyone did send a mail with the correct subject heading, you could filter all of these mails into a specific folder.
What if someone sent a mail with the subject header "More Information" (instead of "More Info")? You could set a filter with wildcards which would look for the correct text within the subject heading.
The wildcards "#?" tell Microdot to filter any mail with a subject header that contains the letters "More Info" - so "More Information" would filter to the correct mail folder. Indeed, a subject heading such as "Send More Information" would still filter to the correct folder! Why? As the wildcards around "More Info" would ignore the other text.
The example above shows wildcards around the subject "netconnect".
Most people are going to want to filter email addresses rather than subject headings. Say, for example, we were being sent mail from Ellis Pritchard, we would want to filter this into a folder.
Assuming we already have created a mail folder (called "Ellis") within Microdot, we need to set the filters to filter his email. Argh hold on, he has two email accounts (home and work) - what do we do? Luckily with Microdot you can set up multiple filters which will filter more than one address.
Firstly select the from tag. This will mean than Microdot looks to the From: heading to filter the mail. When Ellis sends us a mail it will have:
From: ellis@cam-ani.co.uk or From: efp90@nuke.dircon.co.uk
Microdot is superb at handling mailing lists (where everyone posts their email to one
email address and the mail is then distributed to other people on the mailing list automatically)
and these are fully filterable.
To filter a mailing list look for the email address that you would send your mails to (if you wanted to send a mail to the list). The NetConnect mailing list, for example is netconnect@amigaworld.com so you would send a mail to that address.
Therefore you would click the to flag which would filter all mail To:netconnect@amigaworld.com into your new mail folder for this mailing list.
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