I have one catch-all filter to go to an oddly named box "Inbox-Pseudo"
and I have unchecked:

"Use this filter for manual re-filtering only"

In fact, I am not doing any manual re-filtering with a check-box.
I thought this would prevent that filter from ever functioning manually.
I thought that filters were EITHER Inbound or Manuel.

My main problem is: I want this to be an INBOUND-ONLY Filter, and it has not worked that way.  Somehow it went from 50 emails back up to 2000.  Now, I am concerned about cleaning it out again.

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Some thoughts how this may have happened?

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Maybe the ISP sent old mail down that I had received.  However, the RECEIVED dates are generally much older than the last week, plus I have mail I viewed earlier and I do not think this involves duplicates.

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There is the "re-filter" command when you right click a box, which I especially try with virtual filters when they are not showing the emails that should be there ..e.g. sometimes after a reboot.   (There is also a refresh command that has never done anything, and I do not understand.)

So a large number of emails went back into my catch-all folder. And really, I have no explanation.


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Any thing to check or change appreciated?  

This took me by surprise, and I do not want to clean out a mailbox and then find out the mail comes back, without knowing why.

Steven