What's the "Use Filters" option?

When you check the "Use Filters" option for a disposable address (and it's already checked, by default), your personal filters are applied to messages sent to that address before they're delivered. Filters automatically sort your incoming messages into your personal folders. All according to rules that you set up.

Here's an example. John creates dairyman88-carsforsale@rogers.com and provides this address on a sweepstakes entry form at a car tradeshow. John isn't sure of the type of messages he might receive at this address. So he checks "Use Filters" and "Use Rogers Yahoo! SpamGuard Plus" when he sets it up.

He'd like any messages he gets at this address to go into a carsforsale folder, so he makes a new personal folder called "carsforsale." Then, he sets up a "carsforsale" filter, by entering "carsforsale" in "Deliver to:" while setting up the filter.

Another of John's filters states "If Subject contains "free offer," Move message to Trash folder."

When the tradeshow organizer sends him a thank-you note for entering the survey and a $10 rebate on a carbon fiber shift knob, that message goes to the "carforsale" folder. John's happy to get this—he just might buy that shift knob.

The next day, he gets a message with the subject "Don't miss our FREE OFFER for the next show." Because of the other filter John set up, this message goes to the Trash folder.

See? John's got his Rogers Yahoo! Mail account working for him. Not knowing what kind of mail he'd get from the car show, he set up a disposable address with RogersYahoo! AddressGuard, created a new folder, and made a filter that would send messages straight into that folder. Nice! That's the ticket, John.

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