You are not at the mercy of your Inbox. With Outlook Express 5 Macintosh Edition you can create very powerful message rules for all mail and news accounts you use. You can choose to earmark junk mail, block mail from certain senders, and you can route mail from other senders directly to a folder.
To create a message rule, follow these steps:
1. Open the Mail Rules window.
Click the Tools menu and click Rules to open the Mail Rules window.
2. Select the type of rule to create.
Click the tab corresponding to the type of mail rule you want to create. For example, to create a mail rule for all mail accounts that use the POP protocol, click the POP tab. To create a Hotmail rule, click the Hotmail tab.
3. Create a new rule.
Click the New button to open the Define Mail Rule dialog box.
4. Name the rule.
Enter a name for the rule in the Rule Name box.
5. Specify when to apply the rule.
In the If section, specify what messages should be processed by this rule. For example, to apply a rule to all messages containing certain words in the subject field, select Subject from the drop-down list box and then enter the words you want to look for in the text box. Click the Add Criterion button to add additional criteria, or click the Remove Criterion button to remove criteria.
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