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Filtering Inbox/Incoming Email to Specific Folders
  1. #1


    Susan Guest

    Filtering Inbox/Incoming Email to Specific Folders

    I'm new to Windows Mail and its previous versions Outlook Express, etc. I
    just know I've somehow missed the obvious but I need some instructions from
    some source describing how to sort incoming inbox email to various folders I
    have set up? If I stumbled across the means it proved way to difficult to
    figure out at one sitting. I honestly was expecting to right click on a
    'From: email' and see the option to set up a filter to move that mail to a
    folder I create and subsequently automatically move other incoming mail from
    that same address to that folder--it just wasn't so. So, I give up...how do
    you do it?

    And related to this and far more likely _not_ to be available... Is there a
    way to reply to an email that is located in folder 'x' say and have a copy
    of that reply saved to that same folder--not just to...or in addition to the
    Sent folder?

    Thank you.




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  2. #2


    TimS Guest

    Re: Filtering Inbox/Incoming Email to Specific Folders


    "Susan" <Susan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:uJH1cWjPJHA.576@xxxxxx

    > I'm new to Windows Mail and its previous versions Outlook Express, etc. I
    > just know I've somehow missed the obvious but I need some instructions
    > from some source describing how to sort incoming inbox email to various
    > folders I have set up? If I stumbled across the means it proved way to
    > difficult to figure out at one sitting. I honestly was expecting to right
    > click on a 'From: email' and see the option to set up a filter to move
    > that mail to a folder I create and subsequently automatically move other
    > incoming mail from that same address to that folder--it just wasn't so.
    > So, I give up...how do you do it?
    Go to Tools > Message Rules > Mail. Click on the "New" button.
    In the first panel of the window that opens you can choose the conditions
    for your new rule... such as, from a certain account or from a certain
    sender, etc.
    In the second panel you can choose to either move the mail to a certain
    folder or copy it to the folder.
    Once you choose which you would like to do, the third panel will allow you
    to choose which account and which folder. Choose account and the folder and
    click OK.
    You have to set a new rule for each account or folder.
    What I do is... I have all my mail recieved in the inbox, but through the
    message rules I highlight each account with a different color. That way I
    don't have to sort through different folders, but all the messages are
    easily distinguishable.

    > And related to this and far more likely _not_ to be available... Is there
    > a way to reply to an email that is located in folder 'x' say and have a
    > copy of that reply saved to that same folder--not just to...or in addition
    > to the Sent folder?
    If this is possible, which I doubt, I don't have a clue how. Sorry. ;-(


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  3. #3


    Gary VanderMolen Guest

    Re: Filtering Inbox/Incoming Email to Specific Folders

    1. Highlight the message in the message list, click Message (on the
    File menu toolbar), select "Create Rule from Message..."

    2. No.

    --
    Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


    "Susan" <Susan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uJH1cWjPJHA.576@xxxxxx

    > I'm new to Windows Mail and its previous versions Outlook Express, etc. I just know I've somehow missed the obvious but I need
    > some instructions from some source describing how to sort incoming inbox email to various folders I have set up? If I stumbled
    > across the means it proved way to difficult to figure out at one sitting. I honestly was expecting to right click on a 'From:
    > email' and see the option to set up a filter to move that mail to a folder I create and subsequently automatically move other
    > incoming mail from that same address to that folder--it just wasn't so. So, I give up...how do you do it?
    >
    > And related to this and far more likely _not_ to be available... Is there a way to reply to an email that is located in folder
    > 'x' say and have a copy of that reply saved to that same folder--not just to...or in addition to the Sent folder?
    >
    > Thank you.


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