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How To: Create WebMail Message Filters
► Summary:
This article provides steps on how to create a message filter in WebMail, either through the Settings
feature or while in an email message.
Message filters are useful to automatically sort and organize incoming mail into folders. Filters can
even be set to forward specific messages to other email accounts.
► Solution
Step
Action
a. Go to the WebMail Inbox window.
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b. Click Settings.
c. At the Settings window, select Message Filters.
Result: The Message Filter window displays.
d. Under Message Filters, select New Filter
Result: The New Filter window displays.
e. At the New Filter window, enter the following information about the new filter:
a. Filter Name - Enter what you want to name the filter.
b. Filter - Enter what you want the filter to search, and how to search it.
Note: Use the drop-down menu to determine how which fields to search. Check
the box next to priority, if desired.
Note: If you want to create multiple filters, do the following:
i. To add a line, click Add Operation.
ii. To remove a line, click Remove next to the line you want to remove.
c. Action - Select the checkbox to specify what you want to do with messages the
filter finds. Either discard the message, place the message in a folder, or
forward the message to other email addresses.
Note: You can list up to five addresses.
f.
Click OK.
Result: The Message Filters window reappears with the new filter.
g. Enable or disable filters by marking or unmarking the checkbox in the Enabled column.
Note: Filters can take up to 30 minutes to take effect.
► Applies To
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Webmail
