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Open
Outlook Express
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Click on the Tools
menu, select Message Rules and Mail. (Figure
1)
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The New
Mail Rule dialog box appears
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The box is
divided into 4 parts (Figure 2). The first part is to configure
what messages are filtered, the second is to configure what to do with the
filtered messages, the third is a sub configuration of the first and the
third (depending on which is active). The Fourth section is the name of the
rule (you can give it any name).
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In this
example the first section, 1. Select the Conditions for your rule
will be set to Where the From line contains people because usually
mail is filtered with respect to who sends the message.
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Notice that
because you have section one active, section three (3. Rule Description)
changes so you can configure whose mail will be filtered.
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Click on the
blue underlined text contains people in
section 3 of the New Mail Rule dialog box.
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The Select
People dialog box appears.
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Type in the
name of the person whose mail you would like to filter and click Add
(Figure 3).
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Click OK
when you are finished adding all the names that you want.
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Now in section
two, 2. Select the Actions for your rule:, specify what you would
like to do with the message once it has been filtered. You have several
options such as delete and move to a folder. Because the most common action
is to move it to a folder Move it to the Specified folder is checked.
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Notice that
now section three has a new option; Move it to the specified
folder.
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Click on specified
in section three of the New Mail Rule dialog box (Figure
4) .
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The Move
dialog box appears. Select the folder where you would like to move the
folder to (it cannot be the Inbox), then click OK (Figure
5).
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In section
four, 4. Name of the rule type in a name; a good name would be one
that describes the type of filter that it is (Figure 6).
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Click OK.
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Log out from
Outlook Express. the next time you log in the rules will be applied to any NEW
incoming messages.
