It used to be, (years ago) that the message filters worked, apparently, thus: in descending order- filter applied, message removed message from inbox next filter until the inbox was was empty, OR if not empty yet (because no previous filter matched), a final filter of "match anything" would be applied to the remaining messages in the inbox, and those messages would be moved to the designated folder. Now, it seems that while the filters are being applied, the message is not moved immediately, but rather is copied to where it is intended, but left in the inbox, marked read, apparently. So, when the final "match anything" filter is encountered, ALL of those previously processed, marked read messages are actually moved (copy/delete, I suppose) to the final designated folder. So, if this is not a bug, how can I achieve the original behavior? Some additional, should be irrelevant info: I have one main account which mostly gets things addressed to my @spamcop.net address. Things I'm interested in go to one of maybe 50 folders under that account. Anything else ( that is, left over from the previous filtering ) is supposed to go to the inbox folder of my Spamcop account for possible spam reporting, Marked "unread". As it is, every incoming message goes into that account, marked read. Useless. A final note is that messages ~moved~ to the main inbox are ignored in normal use, but if I select filters and manually apply them, they work as expected. Thanks for any help with this. Doug McCrary, long-time user on Ubuntu P.S. I'm not interested in using IMAP, I have everything else working as I like with POP3.