Organizing Email With Eudora

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Using Filters

Filters allow you to find emails meeting specified criteria and take action based upon that criteria. A common use for filters is to sort mail from a particular person or email list into a special folder, or to highlight that message with an identifying color.

You may create as many filters as you wish. Filter criteria are processed in the order they appear in your filters menu. You may move criteria up or down.

To see how filters work, consider a simple example. You can transfer all emails with the word "PSY 101" in the subject header into folder called Psychology.

1. Create a mailbox with the name of "psychology".
2. On Windows computers: Click on Tools and then on Filters
   or
   On Macintosh computers: Click on Windows and then on Filters
3. Click on the New button to create a new filter.
4. Check incoming to filter messages as you receive them. Outgoing filters mail as you send it. Manual is used to filter messages you have already received.
5. Select the header you wish to use for your criterion. In this case you want to look at the "Subject:" line.
6. You now have a variety of option for what you want it do with the header. In this case, keep the default and look for a subject that contains the text you enter, "PSY 101".
7. You may specify an and-or-unless-ignore argument and set another set of conditions.
8. Now tell Eudora what to do when it finds email meeting the criteria entered above. In this case, under Actions select "Transfer to" and then select the "psychology" folder.