Re: [Q] : could someone report success with filters on reception ?

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2003.09.18 12:41 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> On 09/18/2003, Francisco Ortiz Santini wrote:
>> I must correct my previous report. I verified my settings for filters  
>> and found that I set them awhile ago to act when exiting Balsa instead  
>> of on arriving new mail. Sorry for the misinformation. On the other  
>> hand, from an end-user point of view it looks to me a little confusing  
>> having different filter settings in two separate menus ("Edit" and  
>> "Mailbox"). Apart from the sophistication of the settings, they could  
>> be overlooked by the average end-user (it even happened to me and I  
>> consider myself a little above-average). Anyway, I will file a report  
>> on filters now that I corrected the settings.
> 
> I've always found Mailbox => Edit/Apply Filters confusing. `Edit' should  
> always mean the same thing, and that should be editing a filter (as in  
> Edit => Filters...).
> 
> The Mailbox => Edit/Apply Filters menu entry pops up a dialog that  
> allows me to attach or remove filters from the selected mailbox, or  
> `apply' the selected filters to the selected mailbox. I guess that is a  
> kind of editing, but perhaps `Manage Filters' would be clearer...or even  
> just `Filters...'? (It is on the Mailbox menu, after all!)

And if the Filters-menu for a mailbox get an edit-rule and add-rule  
button?
Together with removing Filters from edit everything would be great :)

just my 2ct :)

cu
/Steffen

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