Create a Message Rule in Outlook Express
To create a rule for e-mail messages
- On the Tools menu, point to Message Rules, and then click
Mail.
Message rules cannot be created for IMAP or HTTP e-mail accounts.
- If this is the first
rule you are
creating, proceed to step 3. Otherwise, on the Mail
Rules tab,
click New and proceed to step 4.
- Select the conditions for your
rule by
selecting the desired check boxes in the Conditions section. (You must
select at least one condition.)
You can specify multiple conditions for a single
rule by
selecting more than one check box. Click the and hyperlink in the
Rule
Description section to specify whether all of the
rule conditions must be met before the specified action occurs (and),
or whether at least one must be met
(or).
- Specify the actions for your
rule by
selecting the desired check boxes in the Actions section. (You must
select at least one condition.)
- Click the underlined hyperlinks in the
Rule
Description section to specify the conditions or actions for your
rule.
You can click contains people or contains specific words in
the Rule
Description section to specify the people or words you'd like Outlook
Express to look for in
messages. If you enter multiple people or multiple words per condition,
use the Options button in the Select People or Type Specific
Words dialog boxes to further customize the condition.
- In the Name of the
rule text
box, select the default name or type a new name for your
rule, and then
click OK.
Notes
- You can create a new
rule by
selecting an existing one on the
Message Rules
tab and clicking Copy. This is helpful when the new
rule you want
to create is similar to an existing one.
- You can create a
rule from a
message by selecting an e-mail
message in the
main window and then on the
Message
menu clicking Create
Rule from
Message.
This helps by automatically filling in the name of the person on the From
line; no other information from the
message,
however, is entered into the
rule.
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