On Saturday 31 July 2004 11:01, you wrote:
> While the suggestion below is valid and helpful,
> it is, I believe, not the most efficient way to handle
> this matter.  I think Vaughn's idea has great potential
> because I imagine his 'mbex' utility is or can be a
> invoked as either a command line utility or perhaps
> a cron invoked utility and thus could be used to take
> care of a lot of things that creating kmail filters are
> much slower and more cumbersome to accomplish.
>
> I continue to waste a huge amount of time creating filters
> (both at my ISP's end) and with kmail filters and I still
> can't get ahead of the game.  I can imagine that what
> Vaughn has described could potentially be adapted to
> accomplish a lot of this much more efficiently.
>
> Joe
>

You're right about that, Joe.  I'm aware that filters can be useful.  My 
problem is that I often get into a situation where I "should have" created a 
filter earlier, that is, I didn't realize beforehand I'd need a separate 
folder.  Same goes for Craig's suggestion, though perhaps Evolution would be 
a better choice than kmail.  I also definitely want my contact list in a 
separate document, though I might be able to accomplish that by exporting to 
a text format and the reimporting.  OTOH, Craig also mentioned that there are 
"a lot of mbox tools."  That was what I wanted to avoid doing over.  Like I 
said, I encountered two possible candidates, but they seemed to be incomplete 
or stalled.  I will check again though, and try some different search terms.

Vaughn

> On Saturday 31 July 2004 07:33, you wrote:
> > Gee, I can actually contribute some useful information to the discussion
> > that may be useful. I hope that Vaughn hasn't set me to ignore!
> >
> > 1- Right click on a message that you want to go into a seperate folder
> > 2- Select 'CREATE FILTER'
> > 3- Follow the appropriate steps for creating folders/filters
> > 4- Go to the first message in the mailbox
> > 5- <CNTRL> J
> >
> > It will scroll down the messages moving each message to the appropriate
> > folder (make all of your filters/folders at the beginning). If it just
> > alternates between two messages that means that your at the wrong end of
> > the list.
>
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