Organizing Your Email on the Fly
Linux, OSX, Organization, Thunderbird, Windows December 8th. 2007, 1:08pm
Email can be a hassle but it doesn’t have to be if you lay out the ground work properly. Folders are a great solution but they only bring you so far. I know I don’t want to manually sort all my email. If you’re like me, you’ll love thunderbird’s filters and tags. Filters allow you to sort, delete, tag and so much more automagically.
To get started, click tools > message filters…
And you are brought to a dialog similar to this (mine obviously has a few filters):
Click ‘new…’ to get started.
In this dialog, conditions are defined at the top and actions are defined below. In the example above, you’ll notice that my condition is based on the Subject of the email. When this condition is true, it will perform the actions below. Move to the BOA folder and tag the message as important.
A little note about this window that confuses people, those + and - buttons are to add and remove conditions/actions. You do not need to click + if you are just filling in the one field, thunderbird knows it’s there.
Also note, Thunderbird allows you to add your own tags with a nice array of colors to choose from (though I would prefer hex).
To access this dialog, click the tag button on the tool bar and select ‘new…’
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message. Happy sorting!
