HOW TO FILTER EMAIL IN MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2007 (EMAIL RULES)

Outlook 2007 or 2003 lets you create email rules, or mail filters, to automatically move emails to folders, or delete emails, etc. - following a set of conditions you outline yourself.

This tutorial was written using Outlook 2007 as example, but creating email rules works in a very similar way in Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2002.

To create an email rule in Outlook 2007, go to Tools > Rules and Alerts: Outlook will open the Rules and Alerts dialog, which lists all the mail filters you have currently setup. Let's start by creating a very simple email rule: click on the New Rule button.