Creating message filters:

Message filters help you organize your e-mail before you read it or even see it.  When configured, message filters will check your e-mail for names, words, senders, etc. and forward them to a specified folder or even delete the message for you.

There are a variety of filters you can create.  In this example, we'll create a rule that deletes unwanted e-mail automatically.  Follow these steps:

On the Toolbar, click Tools, select Mail filtering rules, and then Create/edit general rule set from the pop-out menu.

The Select a filtering rule set window opens.

Here you can modify, create, rename, and delete rules.

Click the New button to create a new filter.

Long name for item  =  Give the new rule a name.  In this example I gave the rule the name 'Bad E-mail'.

Click OK when finished.

The filter now appears in the box.

Highlight the filter and click the Open button.

The following window appears:

Click the Add rule button  to create a filter.

The Edit Rule window appears.

Type of rule  =  Select Standard header match from the menu.

This rule triggers when the following text:

Enter an e-mail address of a family member.

Appears in any of the following fields in the message:

Select the options From and Sender from the available options.

What to do when the rule is triggered:

Action to take  =  Select the Move option from the menu.

After select the Move option from the menu, the Select a mail folder window appears automatically.

Double click the mail folder to which you'd like to send the messages that follow this rule.

Parameter  =  The folder now appears as the parameter.

Click the OK button to close the window.

We return to the a window similar to the following:

Your new rule now appears in the window.

Click the Save button  to save the filter you just created.

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