Palm VII - Manual (Page 190)

Page 182 Managing Desktop E-Mail and Beaming Information
Ignoring or receiving e-mail
The first step in establishing a special filter is to determine whether
you want to ignore or retrieve e-mail that matches the information you
specify.
To define whether to ignore or receive e-mail:
■ Tap the pick list in the center of the HotSync Options dialog box
and select one of the following settings:
Ignore Messages Containing : Tells your organizer to exclude the e-mail
items that meet the criteria you define and download all other e-mail
items during synchronization. In general, this filter downloads
more e-mail during synchronization because it blocks only one
defined subset of e-mail.
Retrieve Only Msgs Containing : Tells your organizer to include only the
e-mail items that meet the criteria you define and to ignore all other
e-mail items during synchronization. This filter has the potential to
block more e-mail during synchronization because it downloads
only one subset of e-mail.
Defining filter strings
E-mail items are filtered based on the information contained in their
To:, From:, and Subj: fields. The information that defines what your
organizer is looking for is called a filter string. You create a filter string
by listing the words you want your organizer to find and separating
them with either a comma or a space. Each word in the filter string is
joined by an implicit OR, so you do not need to enter logical
connectors like AND or OR.
To create a more complex filter, you can define filter strings for the To:,
From:, and Subj: fields simultaneously. Your organizer joins the filter
Select Filter option
Tap here