Dalziel wrote:
> wrote:
> > Dalziel wrote:
> >> SteveG wrote:
> >>> Dalziel wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm trying to create an email filter in Thunderbird to NOT download my
> >>>> wife's emails but to leave it on the server. As I don't see this
> >>>> option, the best I can do at the moment is to forward it on to her.
> >>>> She has her own computer and whoever logs on first gets the other's
> >>>> emails. In Outlook Express I can create a rule to not d/l it from the
> >>>> server and block it on my computer. Is there a way around this or an
> >>>> extension that adds this facility to Thunderbird?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> Dalziel
> >>> Create a filter so that if the "To" "doesn't contain" "your wife's email
> >>> address" then "Fetch from server"
> >>>
> >>> Alternatively, set up separate identities for yourself and your wife in
> >>> the account settings. Then when you go to get mail just select the
> >>> identity that you want.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi SteveG
> >>
> >> Many thanks for your invaluable advise. I have set the filter to
> >> "doesn't contain". Hopefully this should work. The other method is a
> >> little more daunting for me so will only resort to it if this fails.
> >>
> >> Your help was very much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks & regards
> >>
> >> Dalziel
> >
> > Identities are real simple. You can have many identities for one email
> > address. Your email address is, for example,
> > . You can have it:
> >
> > Dalziel at
> > Wife at
> > kids at
> >
> > and so forth. So now, when something comes in that says Wife, filter
> > on that. To find identities look under Tools, Account Settings, select
> > the account, and on the bottom right is Manage Identities.
> >
> Thank you for that. But as it is only my wife and myself I'd rather not
> create any identities. She has her own computer. Unless, of course there
> is another advantage to having another identity on my computer?
No, no, no, no, you're not following. You don't create another
"identity" for your computer. And you don't create another profile for
TB. You create another identity for your email address. Click on
Tools, Account Settings, select the account, and look at the area that
says Your Name. This is where the identities come into play. You can
have as many as you want there. Lets take my address. Its:
Now, I can have Heavens at
or I can have Mother at
or I can have Business at
or I can put a million other names.
Mother, Business, Heavens, or whatever, would be placed into the Name
section of that email account. Now, for you, you have one identity
called Wife and the other called Dalziel. So, when mail comes in with
the Name of Wife, then the filter could kick in and not download it.
And all the mail addresses to Dalziel would be downloaded. On her set
up, she would have the opposite. Anything that comes in with the name
of Dalziel would not be downloaded. And anything for Wife would be.
To set up these identities, you do it by clicking on the Manage
Identities button Does this explain things futher?
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