Chapter 6 Going Beyond the Basics
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Managing mail filters
Filters provide efficient ways to manage e-mail retrieval and storage. When you
tap Get Mail or Get & Send, filters determine which e-mail messages are
downloaded to your handheld and in which folder the downloaded messages are
stored.
For example, you may want to file e-mail about sales meetings in a Sales folder.
You can create a filter that automates this action, so that whenever you receive an
e-mail message about sales meetings, it is immediately sent to the Sales folder,
which you created in the filters screen.

Creating mail filters

To create a mail filter, you select various criteria, such as To, From, and Contains.
This information makes up the filter statement.
For example, if you want stock quotes from your online brokerage service sent to
a specific folder, you can filter those mail messages and store them in the Inbox
folder. The filter statement, which is displayed in the Filter Editor, is shown in the
following figure.

To create a filter:

1. Tap the Menu icon .
2. Tap Options, and then tap Filters.
3. Tap Ne w.
4. Enter a short description of the filter in the Name field.