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How to Have OtherInbox Organize Your Yahoo! Mail Messages Automatically

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You've heard or read about those email users that do not spend hours each day wading through all their mail to get to the good stuff. Whether or not these people exist, they must spend hours each day building and maintaining filters, right, or at least have somebody else do that for them?

Somebody like the OtherInbox team, who will organize your Yahoo! Mail Inbox without your ever lifting a finger — except to set it up.

Have OtherInbox Organize Your Yahoo! Mail Messages Automatically

To let OtherInbox's Automatic Organizer sort incoming mail for you in Yahoo! Mail:

  • Make sure the Automatic Organizer application is enabled in Yahoo! Mail.
  • Click Automatic Organizer
  • Now click Click to Start Organizing
  • Sign in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
  • Click I Agree.

OtherInbox will now scan your Yahoo! Mail Inbox every few minutes to analyze an organize. Notification from social networking sites will be moved to a dedicated folder (named "OIB Social Networking"), for example, as will emails from a mailing list, newsletters and transactional messages from shopping and auction sites.

To prevent a certain sender's messages from being filtered:

  • Click Automatic Organizer in the Yahoo! Mail folder list.
  • Select Settings.
  • Make sure the senders you want not filtered are not checked.
  • Click Save.

Add the "Automatic Organizer" Application to Yahoo! Mail

To enable OtherInbox's Automatic Organizer app in Yahoo! Mail:

  • Click Add next to Applications your Yahoo! Mail folder list.
  • Click Add under Automatic Organizer.
  • Click I Agree.

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