Webmail Tutorial

Introduction
Recommended Schemes
Signing On
The Inbox
Reading Email
Composing and Sending Email
Using Folders
The Addressbook
Setting Preferences
Filters
Quotas
Logging Out
FAQ

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Using Filters in Webmail

You can use Webmail filters to help you organize your email. A filter applies a specific action (such as deleting or sorting into a folder) to messages satisfying certain characteristics (such as being from a certain address or containing a specific phrase.) For example, if you regularly receive spam or unsolicited commercial email from addresses that end in "@spam-me.com" you could create a filter that deletes any email from that domain.

To do this, first access the filters screen by selecting the Filters link from the Options submenu on the main menu of Webmail. Click the Add Filter button on this screen to create a new filter. A dialogue box will open:

Fill it out as in this example, and all email from "spam-me.com" will be deleted when you run this filter. If you decide later that you would like to receive messages from spam-me.com again, just deselect the Active checkbox, and this filter will not run again until you mark it as Active.

Note that the Filter Manager is for editing and creating filters, not applying them. If you would like to apply your filters, go to your Inbox and click the Apply Filters button. Alternatively, you can click the box at the top of this screen to automatically apply your active filters every time you check your mail.

It is important to monitor the order of your filters. In the first example, if I received an email that contained ACC as a recipient, and had a subject of [Windows 2000], it would be placed in the Bob folder. If I think it more important for messages sent to ACC to be in the same folder, I should rearrange my filters by clicking the Up and Down buttons so that the ACC filter runs before the Windows 2000 filter.