Hi Kimsan, How to make message rules is below the link to the website of David Bailes. I'll put the complete guide in your DB folder.
Windows Mail Guide http://goo.gl/YTCSS A guide for users of the Jaws screen reader, written by David Bailes. More guides are available on the Jaws Guides page of the VIP Software Guides website. Message rules A message rule automatically applies one or more actions to incoming messages which match one or more conditions. For example, you could create a rule that moved all incoming messages from a certain person to a Folder that you'd created for that person's messages. You can create a rule either from scratch, or base it on an existing message. Both of these methods use the New Mail Rule dialog. The Message Rules dialog is used both for managing message rules, and for creating rules from scratch by launching the New Mail Rule dialog. The Message Rules dialog has two pages, one for rules for mail messages, and the other for rules for News messages, but only the former of interest in this guide. To open the Message Rules dialog on the Mail Rules page: in the Windows Mail window open the Tools menu, then open the Message Rules sub-menu and choose Mail. If there are no existing rules, a New Mail Rule dialog opens, rather than the Message Rules dialog. The following sections describe the New Mail Rule dialog, the Message rules dialog, and creating a rule from a message. New Mail Rule dialog The New Mail Rule dialog contains four controls for specifying the rule: list views for the conditions and actions, a Rule Description edit box which enables you to further specify the conditions and actions, and a Rule name edit box where you can type in a meaningful name for the rule. The first three of these controls are described in the following sections. Select the Conditions for your rule list view This contains check boxes for the possible conditions, and unfortunately Jaws doesn't read the name of this list view. Check one or more of the conditions. Many of the conditions need further specification, and this is done in the Rule Description edit box, as described in a later section. For example, if you check the condition "Where the subject line contains specific words", then when you get to the the Rule Description edit box, you can set what the specific words are. If you check more than one condition, then by default the message must match all the conditions. However, in the Rule Description edit box you can change this to the message must match any of the conditions. Select the Actions for your rule list view This contains check boxes for possible actions, and again Jaws does not read the name of the list view. Check one or more of the actions. As was the case with the conditions, many of the actions need further specification, and this is done in the Rule Description edit box, which is the next control, and is described in the next section. Rule description edit box. This edit box contains the following lines of text: list of 3 items . The first line is always "Apply this rule after the message arrives". . One line for each condition which you checked. . One line for each action which you checked. list end If a condition or action requires a value that has to be specified, this is indicated visually by the phrase that defines that value being underlined. Examples of such phrases are: list of 3 items . The phase "contains specific words" in the condition "Where the subject line contains specific words". . The phrase "contains people" in the condition "Where the From line contains people". . The phrase "specified" in the action "Move it to the specified folder". list end If you read the description line by line then if the line contains a phrase that can be edited, then Jaws reads the line, and then repeats the phrase which can be edited. The phrase is automatically selected, and you can edit it by pressing Enter, which opens an appropriate dialog which allows you to edit it. Two of of the dialogs for editing phrases are described in the next sections: the Type specific words dialog and the Select people dialog. In addition, if there is more than one condition, then at the start of the line of the second condition and all subsequent conditions, there is the word and which can be edited just like the phrases used to further specify some of the conditions and actions. If you edit one of the ands then an And/Or dialog opens, which allows you to change all ands to ors. Type Specific Words dialog If you edit the phrase "contains specific words", then the Type Specific Words dialog opens, which contains the following controls: list of 3 items . An edit box, into which you can type a word or phrase, and an associated Add button. Whenever there's any text in this edit box, the default button is temporarily the Add button. Pressing the Add button adds the word or phrase to the Words list box described below, clears the edit box, and the default button reverts to the OK button. . A Words list box. The first item is the text "Where the subject line contains" or something similar. Subsequent items are the words or phrases which you've added. . Remove and Options buttons, which are associated with the Words list box. You can remove an item by selecting it and then either pressing Delete or the Remove button. The Options button gives you yet more options, as you might have guessed. list end For example, if you're in the Rule description dialog, and the phrase selected is "contains specific words", and the specific phrase you're interested in is Mark Twain, then if you press Enter to edit the selected phrase: list of 3 items 1. The Type Specific Words dialog open. Type in the phrase Mark Twain, and press Enter to press the Add button. 2. Press Enter to press the OK button. 3. You are returned to the Rule Description edit box. The phrase which you edited, "contains specific words", has been replaced by the phrase "contains Mark Twain". list end Select people dialog If you edit the phrase "contains people" in one of the conditions, then a Select people dialog opens. This has a structure similar to the Type Specific words dialog described above, and contains the following controls: list of 4 items . An edit box, into which you can type either the name or email address of a person, and an associated Add button. Whenever there's any text in this edit box, the default button is temporarily the Add button. Pressing this button, adds the name or email address to the People list box described below, and clears the edit box, thus changing the default button back to the OK button. . A People list box. The first item is the text "Where the From line contains" or something similar, and the subsequent items are the names and/or addresses which you've added. . A Contacts button which opens a Rule Addresses dialog, which allows you to use your Contacts to specify email addresses, and which is described below. . Remove and Options buttons, which are associated with the People list box. You can remove an item by selecting it and then either pressing Delete or the Remove button. The Options button gives you yet more options. list end As mentioned above, if you press the Contacts button, a Rule Addresses dialog opens. In this dialog: list of 3 items 1. Tab to the Address list list view, and select one or more contacts. 2. Press Enter to press the temporary default button which adds the addresses to a Rule addresses list view. 3. Press Enter again to press the default OK button. list end Note that if you edit the phrase "people" in an action, that also opens a Select people dialog, but this has a different structure, and is not described here. Message rules dialog The Mail rules page of the Message rules dialog contains a list of the existing rules, some buttons for creating and managing rules, and an edit box containing a description of the rule selected in the list of rules. Giving some more detail, the dialog contains the following controls: list of 3 items . A list view which contains a check box for each existing rule. If the check box is checked, then the rule is active, otherwise the rule is turned off. The rules are applied to an incoming message in the order of the rules in this list view. . A number of buttons: list of 6 items nesting level 1 . New button, which opens a New Mail Rule dialog for creating a new rule, and which was described above. . Modify button, which is used for modifying the rule selected in the list view. It opens an Edit Mail Rule dialog, which has exactly the same structure as the New Mail Rule dialog. . Copy button, which creates a copy of the rule selected in the list view, and places it immediately below the original rule in the list. . Remove button, which deletes the selected rule, though it's easier just to press Delete. . Apply now button, which is used for applying one or more of the rules to the existing messages in one or more of the folders. It opens an Apply mail rules now dialog. . Move Up and Move Down button, which are used for moving the selected rule up and down the list respectively. list end nesting level 1 . Rule description edit box, which contains a description of the rule selected in the list view. This has the same functionality as the Rule description edit box which was used for creating a rule, and so you can edit the phrases/values of the rule using this edit box. See the section above on the Rule description edit box for more details. list end Creating a rule from a message A quick way of creating a new rule in which the condition is that it comes from a certain person is to use the Create Rule from Message command, which is on the Message menu. This command opens a New Mail Rule dialog, which is described above in the New Mail Rule dialog section above. The condition "Where the From line contains people" is already checked, and in the Rule Description edit box, the phrase "contains people" has been edited so that it contains the address of the sender of the message. Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. Go Dodgers! ----- Original Message ----- From: Kimsan To: 'jaws-users' Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 12:34 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] message rules Does anyone have instructions on how to create message rules in windows mail? Not windows live mail but windows mail. Thank you. Kimsan Song kimsans...@charter.net For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
