Creating message filters:

Message filters help you organize your e-mail before you read it or even see it.  When configured, message filters will check your e-mail for names, words, senders, etc. and forward them to a specified folder or even delete the message for you.

There are a variety of filters you can create.  In this example, we'll create a rule that deletes unwanted e-mail automatically.  Follow these steps:

On the Toolbar, click Tools, select Mail filtering rules, and then Create/edit general rule set from the pop-out menu.

The Select a filtering rule set window opens.

Here you can modify, create, rename, and delete rules.

Click New to create a new filter.

Long name for item  =  Give the new rule a name.  In this example I gave the rule the name 'Bad E-mail'.

Click OK when finished.

The filter now appears in the box.

Highlight the filter and click Open.

The following window appears:

Click the Add rule button to create a filter.

Click the Expression button.

If this regular expression  =  Enter......

Occurs in the message's:

Select Body only.

Then do this:

Action  = Select Delete from the menu.

Click OK when finished.

Repeat the last step until you're satisfied with the rule.  It may take some experimentation.

Click the Save button to save the filter you just created.

 

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