Setting Up Filters In Netscape Messenger

To create a filter for incoming messages:

• In the Netscape Messenger window, click on Edit --> Message Filters...
• Click on the New... button.





• In the "Filter name" field, give the new filter a name. Any unique name will be fine.
• Netscape Messenger gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your message filters. In this case, we want to filter messages based on the subject line. Select Subject from the pull-down menu.

 
Next, we get to choose what quality the filter is looking for in the header specified in the previous field. The default is contains, and we want to use this default.

In order to move these messages into a local folder:

1. In the field to the right of the word "then", select the default, Move to folder. Select an existing local folder, or if you want to make a new folder for these messages, click on New Folder...





1. If you are creating a new folder, enter a name for it and then click OK.

 
 

Now you should see your new folder displayed in the center of the Filter Rules Box.
Click on OK again. Now any messages that come into your mailbox and contain this subject line will be filtered directly into a local folder of your choice.
 
 

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