Taming the MailBox MonsterWritten by Gail Hornback
If you use Outlook Express to manage all of your email accounts, be sure that you are taking advantage of using its ability to sort your mail for you!Using Folders and Message Rule options can be a great way to save you time and confusion when going through your mountains of Email. First of all, decide categories you need for your Folders. Of course, if you receive emails from various domains and locations, this would be an obvious choice for some of your categories. You're boss! There are all kinds of ways to sort! To set up folders: 1.Click File/Folder/New (You should see outline of existing folders in front of you.) 2. Highlight folder under which you would like your new category. You will probably want to start out placing new ones under "Local Folders". This way you will see them when you are working in OE. 3. Type in your chosen Folder Name, and click OK. After you have created all of your folders, you are now ready to assign message rules to your incoming mail. The easiest way to create them is by using existing mail to create rules from. For example, I participate in a number of Get Paid to REad Email programs. I set up a folder which I call GPTREM. It is easiest to click through them if they are all in one folder, and I do it one day a week. But it is tedious to look through daily mail, and move them to that folder as they come in one at a time. Go through process below one time, and they will go there automatically from then on. If you have numerous emails that come from same place, and would like them automatically collected into a folder to be read at a later date, this is a great time saver.
| | Scary MailWritten by Gary Onks
I wish it was Halloween mail that I was talking about, but due to recent events, it's everyday mail that now scares folks.Mail is very important to all of us. We look forward to its arrival each day. From a business perspective, mail is an essential part of our daily activities. As individuals we look forward to getting letters and postcards from people that we care about. Whatever our age, getting mail is a decades old and ingrained habit. As for seniors, they will read just about everything that you send them. There is little if any *junk mail* from senior viewpoint. However, there has always been some mail that most of us are a little suspicious of and it truly applies to mail we get today. Mail without a return address screams JUNK rather loudly and nowadays no address will mean no opening or viewing. A real close second is mail with a PO Box address. We tend to view this as a fly-by-night or at best a small potatoes outfit. After all what kind of business would fit in a PO Box anyway and nobody could actually live in one (hey, it's an old saying so bear with me).
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