Jennifer A Hoff wrote [in part]: > there was a way to automatically route the SAS-L emails to a separate > folder, "by-passing" the Inbox. Is there a way to do this with Lotus Notes?

As Michael 'noted', in v5.x you can use user-written rules to accomplish this. In fact, this is how I do it myself. First, you'll have to go into your 'preferences' and check the box which will be named something like 'Enable scheduled local agents'. It should be under start-up options. Then you'll have to make your rule. The details on this are in your help, under a title such as 'filtering new mail using rules'. You go to your Mail Database and click on the 'Rules' folder. Once that opens, click on 'New Rule', then use the point-and-click interface to build yourself a rule which will pick up incoming mail from SAS-L . Mine looks like:

When: Sender contains SAS(r) Discussion or To contains SAS-L

This works by first selecting the 'Sender' box, clicking 'contains', and typing in the words 'SAS(r) Discussion' [which appear in the 'Sender' line as I get SAS-L mail]. Make sure the 'Condition' box is checked, rather than the 'Exception' box. Then pick 'OR' and repeat this with 'To', 'Contains', and typing 'SAS-L'. Then give it an action. I created a mailbox called sas-l, and my action is 'move to' 'sas-l folder'. Finally, make sure to click on the dot at the top, so your rule is now 'On'.

As a word of warning, while this worked well for me, I had to do a lot of trial-and-error to get another mailing list to work because of 'features' in the way those mails are sent. And another word of warning: I have not been able to get this to work right on my supervisor's machine...

HTH, David -- David Cassell, CSC Cassell.David@epa.gov Senior computing specialist mathematical statistician