This tip gives you the tools you need to help organize your email with Outlook Express or Windows Mail. Using Filters is like having an assistant go through your email for you and sort it before you see it. Click here for a previous tip on how to use filters to keep spam out of your inbox.
This week’s tip describes email filters using Outlook Express and its rules based system:
1. Create mail folders for Jokes, Spam Saved mail, etc by RIGHT clicking on Local Folders from the folder list, then clicking on New Folder. Creating folders will give you a chance to really organize and sort email with this rules technique
2. Click on Tools –> Message Rules –> Mail
3. In the first box, choose a parameter like “where the subject contains specific words” (you can choose more than one parameter) OR where an email address appears in the To or CC
4. In the second box, choose an action like “delete it” or “move to specified folder”
5. In the third box, click on any underlined words to set the parameter (ex: specified words = spam or viagra)
6. In box four, name your rule something descriptive
7. Click OK
8. Click New and repeat the steps to add new rules
