Okay, let's make a new email folder (email folder in Outlook Express, not SubDirectory type folder) to store our emails in. Incoming email comes into your Inbox folder, and it's a good idea to stick personal stuff in a separate email-folder. In this example we'll call it personal.
The next step would be making a message rule that puts email from, say, name@emailaddress.com into that separate email-folder (personal) directly, automating the process for you.
1. Open up Outlook Express (which is the email client you & I & half the planet use).
2. Notice the 'Local Folders' above Inbox...? When you click the Local Folders it highlights to show it's selected.
3. Now right click on 'Local Folders' and select New Folder... from the popup box.
4. Type the desired new folder name in the Folder Name field. (Easily renamed later)
5. Click the 'OK' button and watch your new folder suddenly exist.
(You can now drag some email from Inbox to your new email-folder.)
Obviously you have to drag (new) messages from your Inbox to your new email-folder by hand each time.
1. Open Outlook Express.
2. You want the email address handy ( I'll use name@emailaddress.com as an example ), either on paper or in the clipboard (highlight & Copy).
3. Go ' Tools --> Message Rules --> Mail '
(This gets you to the Message Rules dialog box, and you should be under the Mail Rules tab.)
4. Click the 'New...' button. (This gets you to the 'New Mail Rule' dialog box)
5. In the box titled "1. Select the Conditions for your rule" tick the box Where the From line contains people.
6. In the box titled "2. Select the Actions for your rule" tick the box Move it to the specified folder.
7. In the box titled "3. Rule Description" click on the underlined blue words 'contains people'
8. In the Select People dialog box, enter (or paste) the email address (or select it from address book) then press 'Add' followed by 'OK'.
9. In the box titled "3. Rule Description" click on the underlined blue word 'specified'
10. In the Move dialog box, select your newly created (personal) email-folder (by clicking on it), then click 'OK'
11. In the box titled "4. Name of the rule:" type something like "Move name to personal" or something. (this step optional).
12. Click 'OK' (This saves the changes and closes the New Mail Rule dialog box ).
As a result of this new rule, emails from name@emailaddress.com will go directly into your separate email-folder.
Later you can easily add other email addresses to the list of who goes straight into your separate folder. (Do this by: repeat step 3., then select your rule, click 'Modify', then steps 7. & 8., and finally 'OK' , 'OK' )
If you wish to stop this rule later, merely repeat step 3., uncheck the message rule, and 'OK'.
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