Filtering Email to find wins

tinker15

I read on here that you can filter your email so that wins show up easily (not that I have that many) and asked about it, but I did not save to favourites and cannot find the topic again

Any idea's?

Fluk3

I personally use a free program called Mozilla Firebird (the same people that make the Firefox web browser). It lets me have all of my e-mail accounts viewable at the same time and it is easy to set up filters so that you can sort out the wins from the spam.

Once downloaded and installed the wizard will talk you through adding your e-mail account(s). Create a new folder for your wins and then follow the steps below.

1) To the right of the search box in the top right there are 3 horizontal lines, click on them
2) Select 'Message Filters...'
3) Then 'Message Filters...'
4) At the top select the e-mail account that you want the filter on
5) Click on 'New...'
6) Select the option 'Match any of the following'
7) There are two drop down menus in the white area, Select 'Body' from the first menu
8) Select 'contains' in the second menu
9) Type won in the next box along and then click on the +
10) Select the same options again and this time enter winner in the 3rd box
11) Click the + again and this time put congratulations in the 3rd box
12) In the 'Perform these actions:' area select 'Move Message to' from the 1st drop down
13) In the 2nd drop down select the folder that you want the message to go to
14) Click OK

I hope the above helps, you still get the odd e-mail appear in you Wins folder (giving you that sudden bit of excitement followed by disappointment!) that shouldn't be there, but for the most part it does the job well.