There are many different purposes for creating a filter in Gmail. You can create filters that will cause certain email to go straight to your spam folder, so that you don't need your waste your time or energy reading them. If you have email that regularly goes in your spam folder, but you want it to go to your inbox without having to select "this is not spam" with every email, you can create a filter that will cause certain email to go right to your inbox. * See this link for creating the filter:* http://bit.ly/bcwivH -- Regards, S.Malathi. http://saranyaselvaraj.wordpress.com http://innovativegals.wordpress.com