Chapter 6 Page 1794. Tap the filtering option you want to apply:All: During synchronization, all e-mail items in your desktop E-Mail Inbox synchronize with your handheld, and all e-mailitems in your handheld Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mailapplication.Send only: During synchronization, only the e-mail items in yourhandheld Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mail application;from there, they are sent to their destinations.Filter: During synchronization, all e-mail items in your hand-held Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mail application, anditems in your desktop E-Mail Inbox that meet specific criteriadownload to your handheld. When you select the Filter setting,the HotSync Options dialog box opens and displays additionalfilter settings. See “Creating special filters” later in this chapter.Unread: During synchronization, only unread e-mail itemsdownload to your handheld from your desktop E-Mail Inbox,and all items in your handheld Outbox are sent to your desktopE-Mail application.Note: The All setting does not mean that all informationincluded in each e-mail item downloads to yourhandheld. Truncation settings (explained in a followingsection) for long e-mail items still apply. Also, Mail neverdownloads any attachments to your handheld. The e-mailitem and any text information appear, but the attachmentis left in your desktop E-Mail application.5. If you selected All, Send only, or Unread, tap OK. If you selectedFilter, continue to the next section.Creating special filtersYou can create special filters to control the type of e-mail items thatdownload to your handheld during synchronization. Special filterswork on the premise of ignoring or retrieving items that containspecific information in their header fields.To create a special filter, you must decide whether you want to ignoreor retrieve certain e-mail items. Then, based on that decision, youmust tell your handheld what it needs to look for in the To:, From:, andSubj: fields to single out those e-mail items.
