Filter

During synchronization, all e-mail items in your

 

companion Outbox are sent to your desktop E-

 

Mail application, and items in your desktop E-

 

Mail Inbox that meet specific criteria download to

 

your companion. 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 companion from your

 

desktop E-Mail Inbox, and all items in your

 

companion 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 companion. Truncation settings (explained in a following section) for long e-mail items still apply. Also, Mail never downloads any attachments to your companion. 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 companion 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 companion what it needs to look for in the To:, From:, and Subj: fields to single out those e-mail items.

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