I am aware from your original post that you prefer to use only one identity, however have you fully considered the benefits of creating an identity for each of your email accounts.

That way you can tie an account (address) to a folder and automatically use that address when replying to mail from that folder.

Cheers,

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James Quigley 

I like to have all my email accounts under one identity.  When they download I like to have them moved to a folder I use specific to that account.  I can not find a way to do this operation.  The filter rules I found can match against anything else I can think of but not the account.  I even tried looking at the POP3 filters but there was not an option in there that I could find which indicated where to download them to.  Any help appreciated.

Have a look at Autofiltering folders in the Help index and see if that suits your purpose.

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James Quigley

I read through the help on the autofiltering and it seems to have more to do with pulling conversations out of the general email population.  That does not seem to meet my needs.  I am considering using the filter rules to look for anything being sent to (or cc'ed to) the email address associated with the account.  Seems like it will suit my purposes, although it just doesnt seem as neat as doing it by account.  Should work though.  I will keep looking.

 Thanks for the quick reply.

OK. But bear in mind that autofiltering does work on "to" and "from" addresses.

This enables you to filter any mail to or from a particular addressee into a particular folder and,

if necessary, limit that folder to a single addressee.

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James Quigley

although it just doesn't seem as neat as doing it by account.  Should work though.  I will keep looking.

Check the headers in the mail coming from each POP3 account.  In many cases there is a header in the message showing the original SMTP e-mail address that is added when the mail is received at the ISP's SMTP host and delivered to the account.  There might be a header in the message identifying the account that you can use for filtering.  If nothing else there may be a server name in the headers identifying the server.

Personally though I generally do not sort my mail by either server or account, I use the e-mail address and use autofiltering.  ;-)

Thanks to both of you.  I guess I will play around with the autofiltering and get a better handle on it.