Handspring Visor manual Creating special filters, Filter, Unread

Filter	During synchronization, all e-mail items in your
	handheld Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mail
	application, and items in your desktop E-Mail
	Inbox that meet specific criteria download to your
	handheld. When you select the Filter setting, the
	HotSync Options dialog box opens and displays
	additional filter settings. See “Creating special
	filters” later in this chapter.
Unread	During synchronization, only unread e-mail
	items download to your handheld from your
	desktop E-Mail Inbox, and all items in your
	handheld Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mail
	application.

Note: The All setting does not mean that all information included in each e-mail item downloads to your handheld. Truncation settings (explained in a following section) for long e-mail items still apply. Also, Mail never downloads any attachments to your handheld. The e-mail item and any text information appear, but the attachment is left in your desktop E-Mail application.

5.If you selected All, Send only, or Unread, tap OK. If you selected Filter, continue to the next section.

Creating special filters

You can create special filters to control the type of e-mail items that download to your handheld during synchronization. Special filters work on the premise of ignoring or retrieving items that contain specific information in their header fields.

To create a special filter, you must decide whether you want to ignore or retrieve certain e-mail items. Then, based on that decision, you must tell your handheld what it needs to look for in the To:, From:, and Subj: fields to single out those e-mail items.

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