ok, to clarify what I am asking for:

In my small business, when I open my email client, I typically get 150-200 emails daily

Previously, when using Outlook Express, I would assign an action to emails according to
how I needed to deal with them

For emails that repeatedly came from the same senders, this was convenient

Invoices from suppliers were marked to forward to bookkeeping, notices for training courses
to another folder, technical support to our tech person, orders to our sales desk etc

with OM, I can label the emails as I like but then I still have to manually sort and forward
the ones that I do not deal with myself, which is really time consuming

worse still is spam, which makes the inbox so cluttered that I find myself losing sight of
important messages as they are buried in a mass of junk

It is tedious and wasteful to have to delete each junk mail individually, as the "junk" label
only applies to that individual email and doesn't stop future emails from the same sender

So, if possible, I'd like to be able to re-direct automatically certain emails and delete
others when they come from an unwanted source

Is this possible yet?

Dear Opera Developers,

I really like your mail client, but I can't use it because it cannot handle the volume of mail that
I get from many senders including spam

There is a feature in Thunderbird and Outlook/Outlook Express that allows the user to create a
"rule" for a particular message that can redirect, forward or delete the incoming message based
on user defined parameters

This would be really helpful in OM...the "Label" feature doesn't work as well and the spam feature
apparently doesn't work at all, and I am submerged in junk mail since changing from TB to OM

Any possibility that this could be added in future or is it a feature that is hidden and can be
enabled?

Quoted from Leocg

**It is disabled or it is enabled? If it's disable, your spam filter will not work and the job will be done by the server's spam filter only.

Also, if you have "learn from labeled messages" enabled, the filter will take a while to learn what to mark as spam.**

Thanks Leocg... my spam filter is on, set to strong filter, but because of the default view setting,
all the spams continued to be present in my inbox... thanks to the explanation by Burnout426 I can
make most of the spam disappear from view

So, apparently the spam filter doesn't delete the unwanted messages, but you can make them invisible

Quoted from Burnout426

Note that Opera might show spam by default in other views. If you click the "settings for this view" icon on the message list toolbar for each view (except for the spam view) and uncheck "show spam", you should only see messages that are marked as spam in "All Messages/Spam".

Thanks Burnout426, that is a BIG help, it took a while to find the well-hidden setting, but it reduced the
number of spam messages clogging my inbox...much appreciated!

It is, but I still have to individually mark each email as junk, then move them to the junk folder

I really want this to happen automatically...likewise, if I could sort my incoming emails by the sender

and organize them in individual sub-folders, it would be very helpful, more like what I'm used to with

my other email program

thanks for the reply Leocg,

I have the spam filter enabled, but it doesn't do anything as far as I can see...maybe it is filtering
spam at a broader level, but I can't set it to weed out specific senders

If I could set the spam rules myself, it might work

Developers? having the ability to route emails to specific destinations is VERY handy, especially in a
small business... Outlook Express had it, Thunderbird has it....why not Opera Mail

The labels are a weak substitute and doesn't reduce inbox clutter the way that directed routing does (IMO)

Hi,

I've just installed Opera Mail on my Windows 7 computer and I am trying
to set up "rules" for the incoming mail so that I can divert unwanted
messages straight to the trash

I've tried to do this with "Labels" but there is no (obvious) way to treat
spam messages... the Labels just flag the messages but don't remove them
from my Inbox

Did I miss something?

thanks

Mike