Apply Filter to Existing Folder

[nofrills]

Can you apply a custom filter to an already populated folder.

A large POP3 retrieval was done before any filters were made. Now the one folder has thousands of emails unsorted. Filters were made after this so any new emails will go to the aproprate folder. But anything that was already downloaded is stuck in the original folder.

Other than clicking on every single email, isn't there a way to run the custom filter we created to move them from the original folder to the newly created ones?

[Code Crafters]

The best way to do this would be to use WebMail's search facility to filter the emails then move them to another folder using the move to folder drop down box in WebMail.

[nofrills]

Yes kind have been doing that, but when you have 15,000 emails retrieved, doing them at 25 at a time is a little time consuming.

[m1byo]

what about setting another mailbox up to retreive all of these emails using pop3 internally and then apply these filters!

[Code Crafters]

You can change the WebMail page size. However, m1byo's suggestion to setup a second mailbox to download and re-filter all mails via POP3 retrievals is a much better way. You can always rename the new mailbox to the original one after you've transferred all the mails too.