Creating General Mailboxes and filters in Eudora 4.3.2.

Creating Mailboxes

1.  Press Alt x to activate the Mailbox pulldown menu.

2.  Cursor down to the New... option (or press n to get there), and press
enter.  You will be placed in an edit box.

3.  Type the name of the mailbox you are creating.

4.  If you want to make this mailbox a folder, tab once and press the 
spacebar to check the box that reads "make it a folder."

5.  Press enter.  You should have successfully created a new mailbox.


Filtering Messages in Eudora 4.3

1.      Highlight an incoming message you wish to filter.

2.      Press Alt S to activate the Special menu, cursor down to the Make 
Filter option, and choose it by pressing enter.  The Make Filter dialog box 
appears with the selected message criteria already entered.  The eleven 
choices in this dialog box in tab order are:

a. Create Filter Button
b. Add Details Button
c. Cancel Button
d. Match Conditions Incoming
e. Match Conditions Outgoing
f. Match Conditions Manual
g. Match Conditions (from, any recipient, subject) radio buttons
h. Match Conditions Contains: Edit box
i. Action list box (transfer to new mailbox, transfer to existing mailbox, 
delete message & transfer to trash)
j. Action Edit box
k. Action In Button

3.  Tab three times to the Match Conditions Incoming box, and make sure 
that it is checked.  Tab once to the Match Conditions Outgoing box, and 
make sure that it is unchecked.  Tab once again to the Match Conditions 
Manual box, and make sure that it is checked.

4.  Tab once to the Match Conditions list box.  This list box contains 
three radio buttons: from, any recipient, and subject.  Check the From 
radio button (turned on by default) to match the message against the From 
field-the sender of the message you are filtering. You can then edit the 
field. The From field of a target message must contain the information in 
this box but does not have to exactly equal it.  Check the Subject radio 
button to match the message against the Subject field of the message you 
are filtering.  You can then edit the field.  The Subject line of a target 
message must contain the information in this box but does not have to 
exactly equal it.  Do not check the any recipient button.

5.  Tab once to the Match Conditions Contains : edit box, and edit this 
field to your liking.  For example, if you checked the subject radio button 
in the previous option, and you are filtering a message from the JFWLite 
list with the subject line "Re[JFWlite] Eudora pro 4.3.2 red/unred," you 
may want to edit this field to just read [JFWLITE].  In this example, all 
incoming messages from the JFWLITE listserv will be sent to the box 
designated for this filter, since every subject field contains this string.

6.  Tab once to the Action list box.  This box has three choices: transfer 
to new mailbox, transfer to existing mailbox, and delete message (transfer 
to trash).  Since you have already created a mailbox for this filter, check 
the Transfer To Existing mailbox button.  You would check the Transfer to 
New Mailbox button to transfer the filtered message to a new mailbox that 
you will specify.  The text field is filled in with a suggested newmailbox 
name based on your selected content match condition (From or Subject). You 
can change this name if you like.  You would check the Delete Message 
(Transfer To Trash) button to delete the filtered message to the trash mailbox.

7.  Tab twice to the In button, and press enter.  A version of the Transfer 
menu appears, letting you choose the mailbox you previously created from 
the Transfer menu.  Cursor down to the desired mailbox, and press 
enter.  You will be returned to the filter dialog box, and the In button 
will reflect the mailbox you just selected.

8.  Shift Tab once to go back to the action edit box.  Delete the contents 
of this field, and enter the name of the existing mailbox you just selected 
with the In button.

9.  Tab twice to the Create Filter button, and press enter.  You have just 
successfully created your filter.