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Set Up E-mail Filters - Tech Support Page
By Raymond Garcia
Web Tech Geek.com
You need e-mail filters to block spam, or
junk e-mail, and other unwanted e-mail messages by automatically
deleting them on the fly. You can use Filters to sort
incoming messages into particular folders on your computer.
If your using Microsoft Outlook, open the Tools menu,
select Message Rules, and then Mail, or open Message and
select Create Rules for Message. In Netscape Messenger,
the filters are found under the Message Filters command
in the Edit menu.
You can select multiple conditions for
the same filter, such as mail from Smith with Company
Accounts in the header. Read your e-mail program's Help
file it contains more information about customizing mail
filters. Try to avoid overly general e-mail filters, filtering
e-mail from "Geek" means you might miss e-mail from other
Geeks. You can also block messages from a particular sender
or domain, see # 6. below. Remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com
for more How To's!
The Steps:
1. You need to open your e-mail program.
And locate the Filters section, usually found under Edit,
Options or Tools on the menu bar.
2. You need to click New and type the name
of the new filter. Try to make it's easy to remember,
such as Spam E-mail or Junk E-mail.
3. Now enter the filter rules, or conditions.
The conditions are requirements the e-mail must meet.
A good example, the e-mail sender is Tom Smith or the
subject includes the words Fast Money! in order for the
action of deleting the message to take place.
4. Now select the action you want the e-mail
program to perform with the e-mail filtered. You can move
it to another folder, or delete it, or request other actions,
it depending on the mail program you are using.
5. Now to Save your new filter click on
OK.
6. To block messages from a sender or domain
You can block messages from a particular sender or domain.
The domain is the name following the @ symbol in an e-mail
address. When you block a sender or domain, no e-mail
message from that sender will arrive in your Inbox. E-mail
from blocked senders goes directly into your Delete folder.
From your e-mail Inbox or the list of messages in a newsgroup,
select a message from a sender you want to block. On the
Message menu, click Block Sender.
Notes: Blocking a sender applies
to standard POP mail only. It does not apply to HTTP mail
(Hotmail) or IMAP messages. To remove a name from the
Blocked Senders list, click the Tools menu, point to Message
Rules, and then click Blocked Senders List. Hotmail users
can add name to the Blocked Senders list. Remember to
come back to WebTechGeek.com for more How To's.
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