>>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.

> 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.

If Kmail works like Mozilla/Thunderbird in regards to filters, then you should 
be able to create a rule at any time and run it against a current mbox folder. 
I do this all the time with Mozilla since I sign up for mailing lists and then 
after receiving a few messages decide how to filter those messages into their 
own folder (e.g. something in the subject, the to address, the from address, 
etc...).
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