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Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:23:03 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Mozilla profiles

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In <3E7CFE55.7DC0@peterskye.com>, on 03/22/03
at 04:22 PM, Peter Skye said:

>In addition, Polarbar doesn't allow filters for specific folders so you
>need to set up entirely different "profiles" with the desired final
>target folders and then filter an entire source folder to the new profile
>where it can be filtered into new folders.

Well, it does, but not all that directly. The current version would
require a Java filter which has access to the folder name. There will
soon be a general scripting facility which should have the same
capability. It would be handy to be able to attach demand filters to
specific folders with less fuss.

>pre-filter my email for "spam" using Junk Spy plus a few other filters
>that catch things which Junk Spy doesn't check for. I need to "pre-read"

Ah, Junk Spy. Here I fall into the Skye camp. I own a copy and have
never installed it. My custom MR2/ICE filters seem to be just as
effective and Polarbar's Bayesian is better yet and takes less work to
maintain.

>they can be filtered. Nor does Polarbar allow me to filter messages to a
>particular folder in another persona/profile, so I can't "bounce" the
>messages back to my primary persona and put them in the desired folder.

You can copy them to the Inbox of another account.

>And Polarbar allows you to write custom filtering code (in Java) so you
>can filter any conceivable way you like, but you still can't pre-read the
>spam messages and then filter the spam folder.

Why not?

>How about MR/2? Does it allow custom folder-specific filters?

Yes and no. ICE has demand filters, but you need to open the folder.
select the filters and run them.

With Polarbar and ICE, there's a trade off. Polarbar has a better
selection of actions, but ICE has a much richer built-in filter
expressions.

Steven

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