Security Features of Mozilla Mail
Setting Up an Additional Email Account
Filtering Junk or Spam in iSchool Email Accounts
11 - Filtering Email by Subject to a Designated Folder
If you get a number of emails from one source – a listserv, for example, -- you may want to filter these to their own folder. You can do this in much the same way you just manually created a junk mail filter and folder.
1. Select a “type” of message you want to filter -- for the purpose of this tutorial, we are going to filter all messages from a listserv which sends me a daily email, the Books-ARTS-L listserv. Once again, click on Tools and find Message Filters – a new window will open. Click on New to create a new filter and give it a name such as “Books-ARTS-L.”
2. Next, you are going to define the conditions in which the filters will apply to your email. The Books-ARTS-L listserv sends email which contain (in the email subject line) “Books-ARTS-L listserv: [subject]” Therefore, we are going to filter email messages by their subject line contents. Make sure that the Match any of the following option is selected, and in the box below, select subject from the first box on the left. The middle box should read contains and the final right box should contain “Books-ARTS-L.”
3. Next, we must tell Mozilla what to do with such messages. In the perform these actions box, select Move to folder, select an email account, and create a New Folder named “Books-ARTS-L” and make it a subfolder of your email account. Click OK, and you are returned to the Filter Rules window. Click OK there as well.
4. Now you have returned to the Message Filters window. You see both your SpamAssassin filter and the listserv filter you just create. To arrange the order in which the filters apply, highlight the filter and select the Move Up or Move Down button.
5. To run these filters, click on the Run Now button at the bottom right.
6. Examine your filter log to insure that messages were properly selected.
You can create multiple filters to manage large volumes of email. You must simply find those characteristics (subject line contents, from addresses, or other contents) common to all messages that you would like grouped into one folder that is managed by a filter.
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