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Filters are one of the most important features of any email or news client. Filters can be used to weed out spamming which is becoming
an increasing problem - just create a spam filter, and set it to watch the newsgroups and email accounts you want, and you will see that 95% of
the spam-mail you get disappears.
You can also use filters to seperate email received from mailinglists - just create a custom folder for each mailingslist, and set a filter to move email from mailinglists, from you incoming folder to the custom folder. This makes reading email in especially very active mailinglists painless.
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To create a filter, enter the settings notebook, and you will see a list of filters. From there, you can add, delete or change filters.
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A SPAM filter is a filter that removes most of the "Earn $$$ fast" emails and news articles, here is a step-by-step guide to create a simple spam-filter.
That's it, now you've got your own spam filter that will weed out most of the spam in all the newsgroups. You can also add more conditions to the search, just remember to set the filter to process when one condition is met, otherwise all the conditions have to be met, to execute the action. In the above example, all spam messages will be moved to the "Spam" folder, and you can later review them, or delete them. Experiment with the actions in filters, just remember that if you delete something, it's lost, so until you are sure that a filter works, don't set it to delete messages, especially if you are filtering your own mail messages :) Test filters, by setting the action to Beep.
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The following is a description of all currently available actions
An example of an add-on program that uses REXX filters is Bandit Tagger, which can add taglines to outgoing messages.
A note to script writers: The script will be run in the background, and should not expect to be able to write anything to the
screen while executing, it certainly should not expect to be able to obtain input from the user.
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