Automatically move email from a specified account

You may find it helpful to move messages sent to certain email accounts to a separate folder, other than your Inbox.

In Microsoft Outlook:

  1. Go to Tools -> Rules and Alerts.
  2. Click New Rule.
  3. Select “Start from a blank rule.”
  4. Select “Check messages when they arrive,” and then click Next.
  5. Select “through the specified account.”
  6. In the bottom field, click “specified,” and then select the account you want to move mail from.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Select “move it to the specified folder.”
  9. In the bottom field, click “specified,” and then select the folder you want to move the messages to.
  10. Click Finish.

In Outlook Express:

  1. Go to Tools -> Message Rules -> Mail.
  2. You will be presented with one of the following windows:
    • If the Message Rules window opens, click New.
    • If the New Mail Rule window opens, skip to step 3.
  3. In section 1, select “where the message is from the specified account.”
  4. In the bottom field, click “specified,” and then select the account you want to move mail from.
  5. In section 2, select “move it to the specified folder.”
  6. In the bottom field, click “specified,” and then select the folder you want to move the messages to.
  7. Click OK, and then click OK again.

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