[jaws-uk] Re: OExpress message rules

Well it hasn't worked.  A couple of things.  The words filtered bulk are not 
contained in the subject line that is visible when first opening a message, but 
are in the stuff in the headers that you view in the properties.  I think I've 
got something in the description that needs removing, but it doesn't seem to 
allow me to remove things.  when I tell it the new description it just adds it 
to the end of what's already there.  So frustrating.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Belinda 
  To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:50 PM
  Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: OExpress message rules


  I'll see if I can help with this.  I'm using Jaws 5.0 with OE 6.  

  In Outlook Express you can set up message rules to move certain messages into 
folders, or delete them etc.  You need to go into: Tools/Message Rules/Mail.  
This takes you into the Message Rules dialog box.  NB you won't be able to 
switch back & forth between this email message and the message tools dialog 
box, so you may want to copy and paste this message into a word document, 
that's what I had to do in order to write the instructions.

  (NB The rules don't apply to "IMAP" or "HTTP" accounts, I'm not sure quite 
what this means, but I do know that the rules don't work with my Hotmail 
account).

   

  These are instructions for moving junk mail to a folder called Junk Mail.  NB 
You MUST first create the folder called Junk Mail.  

  1.         Tools/message/rules/mail.

  The Message Rules dialog box has three pages: 'Mail Rules, News Rules & 
Blocked Senders', we need the first page: Mail Rules.  

  2.         Go to the New button to create a new message rule.  This takes you 
to the New Mail Rule dialog box.  This dialog box has four areas that you need 
to move through with tab and complete.  

  3.         First you need to select the condition for your rule, this is box 
1.  It's a box with lots of options that you move through with up/down arrows. 
The first option is "Where the from line contains people", the second line is 
the one you probably want: "where the subject line contains specific words".  
There are tick boxes next to each line, pressing space bar puts a tick in the 
box on the line you're on, but Jaws isn't reading it out on my machine.  I 
guess you can read this with the Jaws cursor if you know how to do that, but 
it's not really necessary as you'll get confirmation of what you've selected 
later.  So move to the second line and press spacebar to select that option 
("where the subject line contains specific words").

  4.         Now press Tab to move to the next box, box 2, this is where you 
select the Actions for your rule.  This is the same sort of list box you were 
in before, with options you move through with up/down arrows and you select the 
line with spacebar.  Press spacebar to select the first option: "Move it to the 
specified folder".  

  5.         Press tab again to take you to box 3, the Rule Description box.  
This bit is a bit more complicated, this box contains a description of what you 
want to happen, but you have to edit two bits.  Press down arrow once and you 
should hear "where the subject line contains specific words".  Now press Enter 
and this takes you to another dialog box, the "Type specific words" dialog box. 
 Type in the specific words that you're looking for in the subject line, eg 
"FilteredBulk" then press tab to the "Add" button and press Enter, this adds a 
line to a box below called "Words".  Now tab to the OK button and press Enter, 
and you'll be taken back to the New Mail Rule dialog box.  

  6.         Still in the same Rule Description box press down arrow twice and 
you should hear "move to the specified folder", press enter to go to a "Move" 
dialog box.  Now you're in a folder list and you need to use arrows to find the 
Junk Mail folder you created.  Once you;ve found it tab to the OK button and 
press enter.  You'll be taken back to the New Mail Rule dialog box.  Now you 
can check the full description of your rule by using the up and down arrow keys.

  7.         Now press tab to go to box 4, the "Name of the Rule" box, and type 
in a name for the rule, eg "Junk Mail".  Then tab to OK and press enter.

  8.         Now you're back at the "message rules" dialog box, tab to OK and 
enter to finish.

  And that should be it.  Sorry if this is long winded but as the saying goes: 
I didn't have time to make it shorter!

  Belinda

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jillian Grant 
    To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:55 AM
    Subject: [jaws-uk] (OT) message rules


    Hi.

    I want to start filtering messages in my other accounts, as I get lots of 
inappropriate stuff from some of the Yahoo groups i'm in.  I've seen on the 
Yahoo website that in theory this shouldn't be too difficult as the ones I want 
to filter are already recognised as bulk from the spam Guard and all should 
have a header of XYahooFilteredBulk or something like that.  I've noticed it in 
the message properties too.  But I'm completely confused as to how to use the 
message rules to do this.  I've set up a folder for these to be put in, but 
don't understand how to explain in a rule that I want it to look for certain 
messages with this header and move them.  If anyone can explain in a way I can 
understand how to set this kind of filtering up, I'd really appreciate it.  I'm 
using Win 98SE, JFW 4.5 and OE5.

    Thanks very much for any help.

    Jill.



------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  No virus found in this incoming message.
  Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
  Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.2 - Release Date: 21/04/05

Other related posts: