By default, all these emails arrive in your Outlook Express Inbox indiscriminately. What a mess.
Wouldn't it be nice if Outlook Express could clean up the mess automatically, filing mail in appropriate folders? With the help of POPFile, a smart email classification tool, it can. Here's how to set it up.
Auto-File Mail and Spam in Outlook Express with POPFile
To leverage POPFile in Outlook Express for classifying mail and canning spam automatically:
- Configure Outlook Express to work with POPFile.
- Set up buckets for all your email categories.
- Create Outlook Express folders corresponding to the buckets.
- Make sure POPFile Subject line modification is turned on.
- Select Tools | Message Rules | Mail... from the menu in Outlook Express.
- For each POPFile bucket:
- Click New....
- Make sure Where the Subject line contains specific words is checked under 1. Select the Conditions for your rule:.
- Now check Move it to the specified folder under 2. Select the Actions for your rule:.
- Click on contains specific words under 3. Rule Description.
- Type "[{bucket name}]".
- If the bucket is named "spam", for example, you'd type "[spam]".
- Click Add.
- Click OK.
- Click on specified in Copy it to the specified folder.
- Highlight the destination folder.
- Click OK.
- Give the rule a name under 4. Name of the rule:.
- Click OK.
- Click OK again.
