Add List Filter

You can use filters to direct incoming mail to particular mailboxes based on the contents of To, From, Sender, Subject, the entire message Header (everything but the body of the message), or the Body of the message.

To add a filter:

  1. Select the field you want to search. You can select from: To, From, Sender, Subject, the entire Message Header, or the Body of the message.

  2. Select contains to have the filter look for messages that contain the search string; select doesn't contain to look for messages that do not contain the string.

  3. Enter a search string in the Phrase text box as described below.

  4. Select Case Sensitive Match to search for text that matches the case of the search string; to ignore case, clear Case Sensitive Match.

  5. Select Search string from file if you have placed the search text in a text file. The list box shows a list of the existing filter files.

  6. Click Add Condition.

  7. Select one of the following Filter Actions to take on messages that meet the rule criteria.

  8. Click Finish to save the rule.

Entering a Search String

Enter a search string by doing one or more of the following:

   

Text Pattern

Expression

Any character

.

Any of the values separated by vertical bars within the parentheses

(this|that|other)

Any word character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) 

\w

Any non-word character   

\W

Any digit (0-9)

\d

Any non-digit 

\D

Any white space (spaces and/or tabs and/or carriage returns) 

\s

Any non-white space 

\S

Any punctuation character (any character other than \w or \s) 

\p

Any non-punctuation character

\P

   

Quantifier  

Expression

Zero or more  

*

One or more  

+

Exactly 100  

{100}

At least n1, but not more than n2 (where n1 and n2 are numbers)  

{n1,n2}

Note: The following characters have special meaning in a filter:

            {}()|*+,.:

If you want to use one of these characters in a search string, precede it with a backslash. For example, to search for a plus sign, enter \+ in the search string.