Keeping
your letters tidy is not always easy. Learn how
to put out the mess from your mailbox.
There
are many ways in which you can prevent your mailbox from being messy.
This week, we teach you, by using the message rules utility, how
to perform this operation. It is quite easy, and you will do it
only once if you follow carefully the following instructions:
You must first create subfolders for the messages, for now,
you will create them in the inbox rule. To do so, click on the
inbox thread header, rightclick and select new folder. Be sure
that inbox is selected and enter Junk Mail in the box, click on
OK. Repeat the operation for newsletters folder and any topic
YOU want.
You should open the message rules toolbox to begin. Tools>message
rules>mail.
You will now create a rule to filter incoming messages (including
messages already in the inbox): Click on new, a popup will open
looking like the screenshot below.
Check(tick) the "When the from line contains people"
condition
Click on the"contains people" underlined value from
description.
Type in or add from the address box any email address that will
match the folder junk mail(or your specified folder)[E.g megaoffers@offercompany.com,
to junkmail]
Check the "Move it to specified folder" action(this
will delete the mail from inbox and copy it to the specified folder)
Click on the "specified folder" underlined value from
description.
Select junkmail(or any other folder you created)
Give a name to the rule(e.g junkmail filter rule)
Click on OK
Click on Apply Now, a popup will open, be sure that your new
rule is selected and click on Apply Now again, a process bar will
indicate that Outlook express is filtering the inbox and transferring
mails to your newly created folder. When it has finished, click
on OK, click on CLOSE, click on Ok again.
All new and old messages with the specified email address have
been transferred to your new folder, next time when you will check
your mail, mails coming from that email address will automatically
be filtered and transferred to your folder before arriving to
your inbox.
Repeat all the steps for other new folders that you wish to
create.
Benefits:
Outlook
express will keep your local folders tidy, you don't have to do anything
as the process is fully automatic once you have given to it the appropriate
instructions.
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