On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:09:24 -0500, Snow White wrote: > Do I need to start complaining to Apple? There should be a way to > set it to sort NULL from something. I agree but rather than complain to Apple, I gave up on Mail early on and switched to Gyazmail which is much more satisfactory for my purposes. Gyazmail allows for subject "exists" or "doesn't exist" in the rules which should solve this problem. However, in my case it isn't necessary as any mail from someone not in my address book goes into the spam folder and I have a keyboard shortcut to delete messages in a single step after I take a quick look to make sure that there is nothing I want to keep. I let Earthlink filter out about 75% of my spam so that I never see it and after a year or so I don't know of any missed emails. Of course I recognize that my system won't work for everyone, such as those that receive many messages from new correspondents but I have used it for years with no problems. S. Kennedy