WEB MESSAGING

CREATING RULES (FILTERS)

Email delivery rules are used to assist you in managing your mail, and are based on the contents of the To, From, Sender, Subject, message Header (a set of instructions that provide routing and transport information) such as sender and receiver information, and message Body fields. They help you to filter out spam Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup, and not only wastes people's time with unwanted e-mail, but consumes a lot of bandwidth. and other messages that contain certain types of attachments, and can be used to direct specified mail into a specific mailbox.

You can set up your rules to support multiple rule conditions; rules can be used in conjunction with forwarding or the Info Manager to reroute mail from you to another mail user or mailbox. For example, all messages directed to you with the words "Awesome Medical Breakthrough" can be routed to your System Administrator, or to a folder named Spam.

Although creating rules in the Web interface is straightforward, there are some complexities. Click a hyperlink below to convey you to step-by-step instructions for your specific rule scenario.