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[Roy van der Westhuizen]

Thanks DZ, both for the response and the work-around. I really  
thoguht it was something I could not get right, and not something  
lacking. I hope they address it soon as to my mind that is fundametal  
and something I enjoyed about Eudora. However that said, I do enjoy  
mail and despote this shortcoming, will remain a Mail user.

Regards,

Roy

> Unfortunately, Mail does not have "outgoing" filters, it only filters
> "incoming" mail.  The best way to do it that I have found, and what is
> recommended in the Help file, is to set yourself as a BCC on all
> outgoing messages, and filter them when they come back in.  A copy  
> will
> still remain in the Sent box, but your incoming copy will be sent  
> to the
> mailbox of your choice.
>
>     I feel the same way, and it is something that I consider  
> "basic", which
> is very much missing; along with multiple boolean expressions in  
> filters
> (i.e. all messages that come from X OR from Y, AND have subject Z.)
>
>     dZ.

Roy van der Westhuizen wrote:

>> Can anyone help me with a mail filtering question. I run Mail 2.02 on
>> 10.4.2. I have filters set up for all my mails. For incoming  
>> mails  they
>> work like a dream, but for outgoing mails, they do not. I have  tried
>> both setting up an additional filter criteria such as if > from
>> contains > John > filter to mailbox John, + if > to contains John >
>> filter to John. But my outgoing mails still all sit in the "Sent"   
>> folder.
>>
>> Alternatively I have set up a separate mail box, i.e. Joe In and Joe
>> Out, as a child of the former and then set the filter rule to > if  
>> to  >
>> contains > John > then move message to > John Out. But the mails   
>> still
>> sits in the Sent box.
>>
>> This has been my only complaint about Mail which I have used ever   
>> since
>> OS X came out. Previously I used Eudora.
>> I feel I am missing something simple and would appreciate any help.