How to Use Eudora Mail Filters

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You can use Eudora Mail filters to sort messages matching the filter criteria and customize your inbox for more efficient use. The Eudora Mail filters are especially useful for high-volume inboxes and email accounts used for commercial applications.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Eudora Mail account

Understand How to Filter Messages

Step1
Click the "Tools" tab at the top of the Eudora Mail layout, and select "Filters" from the drop-down list.
Step2
Choose to match your filter actions to "Incoming" messages or "Outgoing" messages. If you want to select messages to apply filters to manually, choose "Manual" and highlight your chosen messages by clicking on them in the window list.
Step3
Select a header. This will group your messages for filtering by header, including five main options: "To," "From," "CC," "Subject" and "Reply-To."
Step4
Enter the text you want included in your specified header, accompanied by an option from the "contains" menu directly beside the text field.
Step5
Add an operator to your main filter list. The available operators include "ignore," "and," "or" and "unless." You can then add a second phrase of text using the additional "contains" menu.

Learn the Eudora Mail Filters

Step1
Apply up to five action filters to any one message.
Step2
Use the "None" option to take no filter action.
Step3
Assign a selected status to a message summary by using the "Make Status" option.
Step4
Use the "Make Priority" filter action to assign the priority level of your choice to filtered messages.
Step5
Replace message subjects by using the "Make Subject" filter. All messages you select will automatically have their subject lines replaced with a new subject line, which you'll be prompted to enter.
Step6
Get your other computer applications to display a notification when you receive a new message by using the "Notify Application" filter.
Step7
Reply to messages you receive with a pre-written "stationery" message by using the "Reply With" filter.
Step8
Copy or transfer selected messages to the destination of your choice by using the "Copy To" or "Transfer To" filters.

Tips & Warnings

  • Filter actions can be used twice on the same message, so long as it has no direct affect on the original message. As an example, a user can apply the "Copy To" filter to the same message twice, but you cannot "Transfer To" twice, because it affects the original message by transferring it to the specified mailbox.
  • Not all filters are available with the sponsored or light versions of Eudora Mail. To get full access to all Eudora Mail filters, you'll have to subscribe to the paid version of the program.

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