Dear list, especially the newer folks! One of our members took me up on my offer of guidance on ways to sort incoming e-mail automatically. With your indulgence, ma'am, I'm reposting this information from a previous message with a copy to you.
Now, please take a few minutes to read about a way to make it *MUCH* easier to manage all your future mailing list subscriptions using Outlook Express. Since that is the single most widely used e-mail application, there are a lot of people who can benefit. If you find it useful, let me know. If you need additional help, just ask. I can tell you are using Microsoft Outlook Express, which is the default e-mail reader for Windows systems. I know this because, buried in the super-secret message headers from your query is the line: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Tricking your program to *show* you all these wonderful headers and the super-secret information they contain is the topic for another tutorial alltogether, so I'll leave that for now! <GRIN> The easiest way to deal with mailing lists is to have your e-mail program sort the incoming messages according to where they're from and put them in a separate mail folder. This keeps you a *whole* lot saner than dealing with many dozens of messages all mixed together in a jumble in your in-box! To do this in Microsoft Outlook Express, click on the following menus: Tools>Message Rules>Mail to bring up the mail rules dialog box. Click the New button to define a new rule. In the New Mail Rule dialog box, check the box next to "Where the Subject line contains specific words" in the first list, and on "Move it to the specified folder" in the second list. Down below, you'll see your rule taking shape, with highlighted fields for "contains specific words" and "specified" (folder). Click on "contains specific words" to bring up the "Type specific words" dialog box and type CS> in the upper field, then click on the ADD button, then OK. Click on "specified" to bring up the Move dialog box. Double click on Local Folders, then click the New Folder button. Type in a name like Silver List Messages, then press OK. Then, click on the new folder name you created to make sure it's selected, then press OK. Now you should be back in the New Mail Rule dialog. The 4th field lets you give the rule you just created a descriptive name so you can know what it does when you look at your list of rules. So call it something like "silver list sorting rule..." Finally, you can click OK to close the New Mail Rule dialog box and return to the Message Rules list. You should see the new rule you created at the end of the list. If you click on it, you should see something like this in the Rule Description field: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains 'CS>' Move it to the Silver List Messages folder If everything looks okay, just click OK! Then, the next time you download your mail, any messages with CS> in the Subject line *should* be sent automatically to this separate folder. The great thing is, if you forget about the list for a few days and accumulate a few dozen messages (or a couple hundred!), you can either leave 'em or delete 'em or read 'em, without having to carry a bunch of messages in your inbox. If you completely ignore one of your lists for a while, just go in once a month and delete anything over a month old to hold down hard-disk consumption. Just for practice, you can set about making similar sorting rules for any other mailing lists that you're on. By the time you're done, you'll be an expert in using this feature. <smile> Anyway, that's a lot of answer, but I hope it's helpful. If I've guessed wrong and given you a lot more or less information than you need, or told you stuff you already know, please forgive me. If there's anything more you need, just ask! Be well, Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
