Using Mail Filters in Mirapoint

Benefits

Filters are available in most Email client software (client software is what you use to access the Email Server). Filters perform an action on mail as it arrives in your inbox. For example, a filter could take all incoming mail from nytimes.com and put it in a folder named News for you to look at when you choose. This gets it out of your inbox so that what's left is mail from real people that you want to reply to. Or you could have a filter that deletes all mail from Nigeria if you are getting a lot of mail offering you millions of dollars for helping to launder money.

Filters in most Email client software performs the filtering each time the client goes to the server to retrieve mail. This happens when you start the client, and each time the client checks for new mail (probably every 5 or 10 minutes). If your filters are set up in Outlook and you check your mail from a friend's computer using webmail the filters will not be processed and your inbox will be full of mail you're used to having automatically put somewhere else. The advantage of using filters set up in Mirapoint Webmail is that those filters are processed on the server each time mail arrives in your inbox regardless of whether you are reading mail at the time or not. That means your filters take care of your mail whether you check it with Outlook or using Webmail or IMP from an Internet Cafe.

This is how you do it:

1. Log in to Webmail at http://webmail.williams.edu.
2. Click on Options in the upper right corner of the page.
3. In the Mail section of the Options bar on the left side of the new window, click on Message Filters.
4. In the Message Filters pane click New. The window will look like this:
   
5. Now you can add a filter. To move all mail from Facebook to your facebook folder do this:
   1. Click on Choose Type and select From
   2. leave Contains selected and in the box on he right put facebook.com
   3. In Filter Actions, click Move to, and select the folder facebook. The window will now look like this:
      
   4. Now click Apply and you're done!
6. The Options window will now list your new filter like this:
   

Now each time a mail message arrives from facebook, it will be automatically put in your facebook folder for you to check whenever you like.