Message Rules.
In the Main window, click on the Tools menu, then on "Message Rules", then on the Mail option.
This is another part that needs some work and experiment to get it right. It enables you to sort arriving e-mail into various folders. Most of these folders will be created and named by you, to cope with the kind of e-mail that you choose to receive. For example, you may have added your name to an e-mail list that sends recipes, and have a folder named "recipes" into which you want these items to be diverted on arrival. See "Creating a new folder" in Main View Options.
Mail message rules give you the option of discriminating between different e-mails in several ways. You can use the name (or part name) of the sender, the Subject line in whole or part, and so on.....
You can then direct the e-mail to a folder of your choice, including 'Deleted Items' if you wish to give short shrift to a persistent annoyance.
You can then say "Stop processing more rules". This means that the rules are processed in the order you see, and an e-mail will not be diverted to yet another folder.
After you have checked on what kind of rule you want to use, you then need to give specific instructions in the third panel. The portions to be specified are underlined for your attention. If you wish to select more than one sender (family members, for example) to follow the same rule, the rule construction panel allows you to choose whether to use the and construction or the or construction in your logic.
Lastly, you need to name the rule, rather than accept the bland "New Rule #1".
Finally, you can move the rules up and down the list so as to specify the order in which you wish them to be applied. For example, you may wish messages from specified people to be put into a "Family" folder even if the subject line says "Recipes". In this case the "Family" rule would precede the "Recipes" rule.
© James Nelson, 2001.