Mail Filtering For Netscape Messager
This document will show you how to create "filtering rules" in Netscape Messenger. This will allow Netscape Messenger to automatically sort certain types of e-mail by the categories you proscribe (send into folders, delete, etc..). This method is a very useful tool to help you sort your new or existing mail. |
| Launch Netscape Messenger and on the menu bar select "Edit", "Message Filters". |
| Choose the folder you would like to set a filter for and click "New" to create a new message filter. |
| Type in a name for the filter you are creating. |
| Choose whether to match all of the following filters, or just some of them |
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Choose the criteria to search your messages by; e.g. if you want to filter all messages from "John Doe" | 
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| If you would like to set more than one filtering preference; click on more, and you will get another line of preferences. |
| You must then decide what you are to do with the filtered messages; your options are listed on the right. | 
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| In filtering messages, you may choose a folder to move the message to, or create a new folder | 
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| You may choose to create a new folder as part of local mail or server-side mail (in order to create server-side folders, or filter to them you must set your preferences to IMAP; see http://helpdesk.gwu.edu for more help). | 
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| Congratulations, you have now created a new Message Filter. Click OK. |
| You may create more message filters by clicking "New" or edit/delete them by selecting the filter and clicking the appropriate tab. Click OK when done to return to the Netscape Messenger home window. |
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