Do you have any tips for setting up filters?

Tips? Sure, we’ve got tips! Thanks for asking. Here are a few:

• If you want to sort mail according to who sent it to you, enter the sender's email address in the “From Header” field. This is the best way to set up this kind of filter. Entering words the sender sometimes writes in their emails in the “Body:” field won’t work as well, since other people might use these words too.
• If you want to sort mail according to what is inside the message (all messages having to do with turkey stuffing, for instance, going into a special “Thanksgiving” folder), then enter the words that interest you (“turkey stuffing”, for example) in the “Body: contains” field.
• For best results, put your “narrowest” filters at the top and your “broadest” filters at the bottom. “Narrowest” means your most selective filter; “broadest” means the filter that could apply to the most messages. Once a message matches a filter, it goes where that filter tells it to go. None of the lower filters even get to LOOK at it!
• Entering the same word in all four fields (Tugboat Tugboat Tugboat Tugboat) requires the word to appear in all four fields (From: Tugboat, To/Cc: Tugboat, Subject: Tugboat, Body: Tugboat) for the filter to work. How often is that going to happen? OK, maybe sometimes...

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