Camden alumni are more than happy to share. Sharing includes everything from reminiscences about life “back then” to thoughts about things happening “right now.” That’s a wide scope of topics, and it often generates a lot of daily mail.
This page is provided to help you create rules in your e-mail program that will help categorize incoming mail and shunt it off to a Camden folder for reading when you have more time. Instructions for specific programs are included below, but just about any e-mail program today will have similar functions. Reading through one of the sets of instructions below should give you hints on how to write e-mail rules in many other programs.
OK, enough talk, click on your program below and get started! Click one of the following.
And in the spirit of academic excellence, I’ve added an Extra Credit section too. What could that contain?
Note: Lots of this text is lifted directly from help in these programs. If you want more details on how this stuff works, that’s a great additional reference.
You can manage your e-mail messages by using rules to automatically perform actions on messages. After you create a rule, the Microsoft Outlook Rules Wizard applies the rule when messages arrive in your Inbox.
This option is dependent on how you store your saved e-mail. If you’re at work, you either have server-based storage of your incoming mail or local (on your hard disk) storage. Your inbox is a folder, and that’s the best clue as to where you should be when you create your Camden folder. When you want to read your Camden mail, this is the folder you will select.
1. Open the Outlook program
2.
In the View menu, select Folder List.
If you know how to create a folder, that’s great; create the Camden folder
wherever you want. For those that don’t
know about folders, we’re going to create the Camden folder as a “Sub folder”
to the Inbox folder. That means the
Camden folder will actually be stored in a folder inside the Inbox folder.
3. Select your inbox. Check that you’ve got recent mail there to make sure you have the right one.
4. In the File menu, click folder, and then click New folder.
5. In the dialog, type Camden as the name of the new folder and click OK.
That’s it, you’ve got a new Camden folder.
1. Click Inbox.
2. On the Tools menu, click Rules Wizard.
3. In the Apply changes to this folder list, click the Inbox you want.
If you store your messages on a server, then the server is probably where you want to store your Camden mail.
Otherwise, especially if this is your personal account and not a business account, you’ve probably been storing them on the “Client” or your local hard disk. It’s possible that you won’t even get this prompt.
You should see a dialog where you now define the rule for handling incoming mail.
4. Click New.
5. Click Check messages when they arrive
6.
Click Next.
7.
Scroll the conditions list and select With Specific words in the Subject
8.
Click Specific
words in the rule description list.
9.
Type CHS~ then click add and then click Next.
10.
Click Move to a specified folder
11.
Click Specified and then choose the Camden folder you created earlier in the dialog. Then click OK.
12.
Click Finish, and OK.
That’s it, you’ve created the rule. All incoming Camden mail with CHS~ in the subject will be moved to the Camden folder. You may want to check out the Extra Credit section now.
You can manage your e-mail messages by using rules to
automatically perform actions on messages. After you create a rule, the
Microsoft Outlook Rules Wizard applies the rule when messages arrive in your Inbox.
This option is dependent on how you store your saved e-mail. If you’re at work, you either have server-based storage of your incoming mail or local (on your hard disk) storage. Most likely if you’re using Outlook Express, you’re using a local storeage. Your inbox is a folder in that storage, and that’s the best clue as to where you should be when you create your Camden folder.
1. Open the Outlook Express program
2.
In the Folders pane, select Inbox.
If you know how to create folders, that’s great, create the Camden folder
wherever you want. For those that don’t
know about folders, we’re going to create the Camden folder as a “Sub folder”
to the Inbox folder. That means the
Camden folder will actually be stored in the Inbox folder.
3. In the File menu, click New, click Folder.
4. In the dialog, type Camden as the name of the new folder and click OK.
That’s it, you’ve got a new Camden folder. When you want to read your Camden mail, this is the folder you will select.
1. Click Tools menu, click Message Rules and click Mail
2. In the #1 box click Where the Subject line contains specific words
3. In the #2 box click Move it to the specified folder.
4. In the #3 box, click the link to contains specific words
5. Type CHS~ and click Add then click OK
6. In the #3 box, click the link to specified
7. In the Move dialog, click the Camden folder and then click OK
8. Click OK and OK and you’re done.
You’re done! You’ve created the rule. All incoming Camden mail with CHS~ in the subject will be moved to the Camden folder. You may want to check out the Extra Credit section now.
You can manage your e-mail messages by using rules to automatically perform actions on messages. After you create a rule, the Microsoft Outlook Rules Wizard applies the rule when messages arrive in your Inbox.
When you want to read your Camden mail, this is the folder you will select.
1. Select your Inbox folder
2. Click the File menu and click New then Subfolder
3. Type Camden and press Return
4. Click the Tools menu then the Rules command.
At this point you probably want the Mail (POP) tab selected. If you’re using Outlook Express to manage IMAP mail or Hotmail as your primary mail, then those should be selected instead.
5. Click New
6. Name rule Camden
7. In the If box click the Execute Actions dropdown and select If all criteria are met
8. In the box just below that change All messages to Subject
9. Then type CHS~
10. In the Then box click Add action
11. A new action appears, change the first clause to Move message
12. Change the second clause to Camden
13. Click OK and then close the Rules dialog
You’re done! You’ve created the rule. All incoming Camden mail with CHS~ in the subject will be moved to the Camden folder. You may want to check out the Extra Credit section now.
OK, now that you know how to move mail with CHS~ in the subject to the Camden folder, you can create mail to clean up even more. Some suggested additional rules:
I’m sure you get the gist. Now that you know how to make rules for incoming messages, you don’t have to be bothered by any topic that might come around.