MAIL Rules

Using the Rules in MAIL to stop SPAM.

To set up rules that find SPAM and move them to Junk or Trash follow this procedure:

1. Open the Settings in MAIL:

2. In the tool bar select the Rules icon

3. Select the "Add Rule" button on the right. to get the rule creation window.

4. Write the name of your new rule in the "Description" box and then click on the "From" box to get a pull-down menu

In this example we will select "Subject", but look at all of the alterative selections that can be used to write many different kinds of rules to help manage your incoming mails.

Assuming that we are getting too many sales emails about pyjamas then we set the second box to "contains" (the default) and add the word "pyjamas" to the third box.

5. Go down to the Action section.

and look at the options in the first box. We will select the "Move Message"and in the right box we will select "All Trash", though other options are available.

Lastly we select the Trash in the right drop-down menu.

and click on the OK button and look at our new list with "anti pyjamas" on it

Note that you can get even more clever by using the plus buttons over on the right in the condions section and the actions sectionto get multiple conditions to be satisfy in either "any" or "All" mode.

Here is an example where two conditions are required: