Rules
From Wikipedia
As the last item at the options you can set rules for the way to receive or send emails.
In case you havee not already worked with rules, this will explain: With rules you can define, certian emails with specific parameters will be assorted into certain folders, automaticallly. This simplifies the overview when receiving a lot of emails and saves you from sorting all mails by hand (e.g. emails with companies domain ending, will be moved to the folder 'company'.
At the first line you can administrate rules, referring to a certain criteria. In case you want to have all your incoming an outgoing emails assorted to certain folders, you have to use these two forms, whicch has to be filled out and confirmed seperatlly.
- Attention: Only existing folders can be chosen. In case you delete the folder, related to the rule (e.g. by incident), all emails will be set on the top level of the list view.
Creating a new rule you will have the following form:
At the first field you give the rule a name. At the following line you have to assign a headword, to which the rule has to fit and the searchcriteria. The searrchcriteria is part of the email, in which the headword is searched for:
- Subject (title of the email)
- Text (content of the email)
- Sender
- Receiver (helpful using more than one identity)
- Cc (to whom the email was sent as carbon copy)
At last you define if the email should be:
- copied into a directory
- moved into a directory or
- deleted completely
For the first two options you have to select a directory to finish the action.
