Tips & Tricks

Sorting your incoming e-mail messages

If you get a lot of e-mail messages, you may want to use automatic sorting to make it easier for you to manage your messages. With Outlook Express, you can use the Inbox Assistant to send messages to different folders, depending on certain criteria you specify. For example, you can have all messages with a certain subject line be put into a separate folder.

Here's how:

1. On the Tools menu in Outlook Express, click Inbox Assistant.
2. Click Add.
3. Specify the criteria by which you want to sort messages. If you want all messages from a certain person to be sorted, specify that person's address in the From box. If you want to sort messages with a particular subject line, specify that subject in the Subject box.
4. Specify what should happen to these messages. If you want to move them to a particular folder, click Move To, and then specify the folder you want to use.

You can set up multiple rules for sorting incoming messages. To set your priorities, use the Move Up and Move Down buttons in the Inbox Assistant dialog box.