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Process messages with mail rules

Process messages with mail rules

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Process messages with mail rules

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- [Jess] Unlike Quick Steps, which are triggered manually by you, mail rules are a set of filters that act on your incoming email automatically based on a set of rules that you've specified. Let's create a simple mail rule to move this newsletter into a folder called Newsletters that I've already created. From the Home ribbon tab, select Rules, and choose Create Rule. Now, because I have an email selected, Outlook at the top will always give a few suggestions what it thinks I might wanna do with it. But I'm going to click Create Rule. And at the top, we have to decide what the conditions are. For example, who the email is from or what it contains. I'll choose who it's from. Now I need to decide on the action. I'll choose to move the item into a folder. If this is the first time you've ever created a rule, a dialog box will come up to select a folder. You may have to expand the Inbox, but I'm going to select my Newsletters folder. If the folder wasn't already created, I can click New…

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