3Com PalmPilot Professional Handbook - Manual (Page 32)

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To define whether to ignore or receive
messages:
1. In the HotSync Options dialog, tap the “Ignore Messages
Containing” text. A pick list appears, as shown in the
following diagram:
Tap here
Select fitering option
2. Tap to select a filtering option. The following settings are
available:
■ Ignore Messages Containing. When you select this setting,
you are telling your PalmPilot to exclude only the messages
that meet the defined criteria and download all other messages
during synchronization. In general, this filter allows more
mail to be downloaded during synchronization because it is
only blocking the one defined subset of mail.
■ Retrieve Only Messages Containing. When you select this
setting, you are telling your PalmPilot to exclude every message
during synchronization that does not meet the defined criteria.
This filter has the potential of blocking more mail during
synchronization because it allows only one subset of mail to be
downloaded.
Defining Filter Strings
Messages are filtered on the basis of the information contained in
their To, From, and/or Subject header fields. The information that
defines what your PalmPilot is looking for is called a filter string.
You create a filter string by listing the words you want your
PalmPilot to find, separated by either a comma or a space. Each
word in the PalmPilot organizer’s filter string is joined by an