E-mail organization

[Ted Sander]

And to carry it one step further, as you get comfortable with how the
"rules" work, you can not only sort all your mail into folders, you can have
it dump all mail from people not in your address book into a "Spam" (or
whatever you want to name it) folder.  Yes, you have to review that folder,
to make sure a legit mail didn't also get dumped into it (say from a list
member that replied to you directly), but for those of us who don't get a
lot of mail from previously unknown contacts, it helps segregate the spam a
lot.  Just add a new contact to your address book to prevent future
filtering of their mail.

One other tip - When using "Outlook", and I don't know whether you can do
this in Outlook Express, turn off the Preview Pane for your SPAM folder.
The act of previewing is good enough to tell spammers that they have a real,
live person on the other end - and it just makes them hit you even more!

 

Ted Sander

 

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On
Behalf Of Ken Thompson
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 5:24 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Fw: E-mail organization

 

All,

 

John Pavlick sent this to meto guide me in the setup of Outlook Express to
automatically send certain e-mails to a specified folder.  I followed the
instructions and it works like a charm, so I am forwarding it to the group,
at John's suggestion, for all to use, if needed.

 

Thank you John,

 

Ken

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: John Pavlick (IDS) <mailto:idsmail at att.net>  

To: Ken Thompson <mailto:mrandmrst at comcast.net>  

Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:27 AM

Subject: Re: E-mail organization

 

Ken,

 In Outlook Express v6 there is a "Message Rules..." Item in the Tools menu.
That should work the same way. Select the Mail...  item in the sub-menu. You
need to be in the normal view for these tools to show up. If you're viewing
an Email message the toolbar changes. Basically you would select the "Where
the To line contains people" rule in the conditions box. The "To" is the
NSRCA discussion list (discussion at nsrca.org). You can edit the Email address
that it uses by clicking on the hyperlink in the Rule Description box if the
selection dialog doesn't appear. The Action box would be "Move it to the
specified Folder". This would be the folder where you want your NSRCA mail
to go. You can create the new folder here if you haven't already. I can't
post to the list here (I'm at work). If this works for you, forward my
message to the list. If not, let me know what you're having a problem with
and we'll try to figure it out.

 

John Pavlick

http://www.idseng.com <http://www.idseng.com/> 

-------------- Original message from "Ken Thompson" <mrandmrst at comcast.net>:
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Hi John,

 

Any idea how to set up a individual inbox folder if I am using Outlook
Express?

I don't have an "Organize" tool.

 

Ken Thompson

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