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Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:22:25 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Mozilla profiles

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> A profile encapsulates all the customizations for a
> particular user include browser, mail, news and so on.
>
> Mozilla is pretty capable. In most cases a single profile
> can handle multiple e-mail accounts. The same is true for
> newservers. Overall Polarbar is a bit more capable in this
> area, but I expect Mozilla to continue to improve.

Polarbar is a top class email program, but its profiles don't work the
way I work. In order to filter my different email accounts into
different folders, I need different profiles.

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.

Why would any duck brain want to do this? (Mr. Know It All occasionally
accuses me of always taking the simple and making it complex.) I
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" the messages in the "spam" folder because some of them are
good messages that the filters mis-tag. I send the true spam into
wasteland and the good messages to the folder in which they should be.
But Polarbar doesn't allow me to write a filter that will act on the
"good" messages and re-filter them into my Personal, MailLists, Legal
and other folders -- hence I have to send them to a brand-new persona
("profile") where 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. 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.

A bit of a kludge, it's complex instead of simple, but I don't know any
other way to do it.

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

- Peter

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