How to create Filters in Opera Mail

Hi, I am using Opera 10 since its release and found it really very effective browser. Today i got a news about Opera Mail, that is really very good news for me. I configured my Gmail account with the same and its fine as well.

Now i wanted to know something regarding the filters in Opera mail. Like in Gmail, i have different folders for different emails. But here i found filters for the same. Could you guys please make me know how to create filters in Opera Mail ?

Help appreciated.!!

Using filters is a very powerful feature of Opera Mail to automatically sort your e-mail into more categories than just the default views. You create these custom filters to suit your own needs.

There are several ways of creating a new filter or showing messages in an existing filter. Here some of the examples:-

• Create a new filter based on a message:
  
  • Right-click the message and select Show in > New filter.
  • Name the filter in the General tab in Properties.
  • Set rules and filter settings in the Rules tab.
  
  
  
• Create a new filter in the Mail panel:
  
  • Right-click in the Mail panel and select New filter.
  • Name the filter.
  • Right-click and select Properties.
  • Set rules and filter settings in the Rules tab.
  
  
  
• Create a new filter using the Mail menu:
  
  • Go to Mail > Filters.
  • Click Filters in Message Filters.
  • Select New Filter from the menu.
  • Name the filter and set rules and filter settings in this dialog.
  
  
  
• Display a message in an existing filter:
  
  • Click the Filters header in the Mail panel to expand the filter list.
  • Drag the message from the message list to the filter.
  
  
  
• Select one or more messages to display in a filter:
  
  • Select the message(s) in the message list.
  • Right-click on it or them and choose Show in.
  • Select the filter in the list and select This filter.
  • If you want to add a rule, select This filter and add rule.

Filters in Opera Mail work like tags, you can apply more than one to a message and you can easily view the message from each filter. You can set rules to automatically sort messages or you can drag-and-drop messages into different filters, to use it like a more traditional folder tree, if you like.

When creating a new filter, you have the choice of a few settings, as outlined in the table below. To change the filter settings of an existing filter, right-click the filter and select Properties. Here you'll find some settings mentioned like:

Learn from messages added to or removed from filter. This will allow Opera Mail to train itself into recognizing which messages belong in the filter, and which do not. This can act as a substitute for adding rules, or in addition to the rules. It learns from the messages you remove or add.

Mark messages as filtered. It hide filtered messages from all other views (including Labels, Attachments, Unread and Received views). This is the easiest means of simulating folder-based organization of messages. If a message appears in two or more filters with this setting enabled, the message still appears in all of those filters.

You can also specify some basic criteria to automatically sort mail into a filter. To set a rule, select the headers you want Opera Mail to match to incoming messages. You can choose from: Subject, From, To, CC, Reply-to, Newsgroup, Any, message body or entire message. Choose whether you want Opera Mail to filter messages that contain a certain word, not contain a certain word or matches a regexp expression. Then define that word or expression. To change the filter rules of an existing filter, right-click the filter and select Properties.