Managing your e-mail inbox can help to simplify your life and ensure that you don’t lose any important messages. This is easiest to do if you are using a desktop e-mail program like Outlook or Outlook Express, but it can be done in many web mail clients as well.

Welcome back to beyourownit.com, where we do free video support and we also take suggestions. This particular video is about how to filter emails in Gmail. Now if you use something like Outlook which I prefer, you can create a lot of different rules that will drop emails into various buckets. So if you want to filter all your emails from your mom, put them in the mom folder. Outlook can do that immediately for you and on the fly.

But I don’t really think any web mail services like Gmail, Hotmail or whatever else does that. Well Gmail does but I don’t know if anybody else who does it so that’s why I like Gmail. And today I’m going to show you how to create filters to manage your inbox.

It’s really a good idea because if you don’t manage it, it becomes out of control and you end up high of email. Inbox is out there that I get hundreds of spam messages a day. And it’s just super annoying and very frustrating.

As you can see I’m logged in to Gmail here. And you can go right up here, I’m not sure if you are able to read this in the screencast but it says create a filter. Now the create a filter options, will allow you to create filters based on email address, so if you have somebody emailing you that you don’t want to email you anymore, let’s say some clubs, some spammers getting around their spam filters and you can just put their address in here although typically they change constantly.

To address or if they have something annoying in their subject line, say for example if you can see the first emails from Office Max, or has the words, or doesn’t have the words. So if you want to filter by, let’s say has the words, because Office Max I bought some business cards from there like 18 million years ago.

They continue to spam me so just type that in, I can choose next step and now you’ll see, you’ll find the ones that was in it, it’s quite a few. And you can choose an option, let’s say I want to automatically delete everything from Office Max. You can do that. You can star it. You can apply a label. You can forward it.

Let’s say, you have important emails, this also works in the reverse direction where you actually want messages to get forwarded to you. If you are waiting for an email and you have a mobile device or you want it to forward to your work address, you can create a filter click based on that address.

Let’s say you are waiting for an email on from your mom or something like that and you want it to forward work so you could create a from or whatever her email address is and you can hit the next step. And then it lets it forward it to work. And then you can create the filter.

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