Windows Mail Addons

[Dave]

Are there any Newsgroup filter addons. The one built in is quite poor &
still downloads the message headers from people you filter. I've tried
thunderbird but you can't apply filters to messages you have already
downloaded and can't reset the server like you can in windows mail.

TIA

Dave

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

There is no such add-on for Windows Mail.
Assuming your filter rule is written properly, it should work.

 

[Dave]

No, it's pretty poor compared to Outlook Express. I have the rules set to if
x criteria is true, delete it. Even then the post headers still appear but
the content is some form of a 'Page Cannot Be Displayed' message.

 

[Guest]

I've seen a few programs offered to sit outside Windows Mail but
offer some filtering options there. You might want to look at:

http://www.nfilter.org/

http://acfwiki.pbwiki.com/Filtering with NewsProxy

http://www.fitnwell.net/nfilter.htm

http://www.geocities.com/d4vidb/x_setup11.html

http://www.nfilter.org/faq.html

It isn't clear that all of these will run under Vista, though, so you
might have to try a few of these before you find one that will work.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't have any news rules that delete anything, but I have one
rule that colors a post red if it was posted by myself or a Microsoft rep,
and that works fine. Make sure every rule is terminated by "Stop
processing more rules."