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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


For example, your filter can contain a rule that checks the subject, sender, text body, date, priority,
status, recipients, or age in days of the message for a particular word, name, or date, as appropriate.
If there is a match, you can have Thunderbird put that message in a particular folder, label it
with a selected phrase, change its priority, or set its junk mail status. You can add as many rules as
you like. For example, you can:
 Have all messages sent from a particular address sorted into a separate mail folder. For
example, I do this so that important mail doesn??™t get lost when there??™s a lot of activity on
the mailing lists to which I subscribe.
 Mark incoming messages from important clients as having highest priority.
 Have messages from particular people or places that are being mistakenly marked as
spam change their junk status to Not Junk.
To set up filter rules in Thunderbird, click Tools???Message Filters. The Message Filters pop-up
appears. If you have multiple mail accounts, select the account you want to filter. Then click New.
From the Filter Rules pop-up window, choose the following:
 For incoming messages that??”There are different ways to check parts of a message. For
example, you can check whether the Sender is in the address book.


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