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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Creating a Filter in Hotmail

I find filters infinitely useful.

To create filters in Hotmail just do the following:

Click Options, Top Right

Scroll to ' Customize Your Mail' and click on 'Automatically sort email into folders'

Click on 'New Filter'

Set 'Subject' to Cashcrate

and move to 'New Folder'

Enter name for new folder, e.g. 'Cashcrate'

Hit Ok

Da dah!

I have lots of these set up - ones for facebook and bebo are very useful if you use them a lot - and you don't even need to open the email, just read the subject and it tells you what has changed. Even better, you can just delete the message when you have read the subject, or just not as you have plenty of storage space on Hotmail. Simple!!!