Creating Filters - Palm i705 Handbook

Chapter 15 Using MultiMail

Creating Filters

The FRD seems to indicate that filters only affect sorting of incoming e-mail. Yet some of
the UI indicates it affects e-mail retrieval. Which is correct? How does this work with
notifications and email being pushed to the device?
Filters allow you to sort any incoming e-mail into a folder or mailbox you identify,
to make reading them faster and easier.
For example, you may want to file e-mail about sales meetings into a specific
folder. You can create a filter that automates this action, so that whenever you
receive an e-mail about sales meetings, it is immediately sent to the sales folder.
To create a filter:
Tap the Menu icon
1.
Tap Options, and then tap Filters.
2.
Tap Add.
3.
Tap the Filter name field and enter a short description of the filter.
4.
Use the If the pick lists to create criteria for the filter.
5.
The three pick lists and the edit line combine to create a statement that identifies
the type of e-mail and what you want to do with the e-mail. For example, a filter
might read, "If the [Subject] [Contains] sales meeting, Then retrieve and move
to [Sales]." When you use this filter to sort incoming e-mail, any e-mail
containing sales in the subject line is filed in the Sales folder.
To pick list
Contains pick
list
Edit line
Inbox pick list
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Select the header field with the information contained in the
edit line: To, From, Subject, cc, Date, Size.
Select a filter action: Contains, Starts with, Does NOT Contain.
Enter the text that must be found in the header field. For
example, if you want to sort e-mail whose Subject is Sales,
enter "Sales." If you enter more than one address, separate
them with a comma.
Select the folder or mailbox into which you want your
filtered e-mail to go.