Automatically sort incoming mail

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...or you can set up your email system to automatically sort your incoming mail into folders.

This is the most efficient way to use any distribution list or newsletter subscription -- not just HPAlumni emails -- and can be used to manage incoming mail related to certain subjects or people. With pre-sorted mail, you can efficiently deal with similar messages together. 

You then periodically open each of your "inbox" folders. Delete the ones you are not interested in. Open the others. Reply, save, or delete as appropriate.

Once you take a few minutes to set up your email to automatically sort your incoming mail into a few "inbox" folders, you will never go back to having one overwhelming random inbox!

How to do it:

1. Create a couple of new folders in your email program. (Depending on your email system, you can name a folder with a number, exclamation point, period, or hyphen as the first character -- so that it will be first in the list of folders.) For example, a folder named "!HPAlumni" that makes it easy to follow discussions on the forums.

2. Make filters. You have to experiment a bit -- for example some email filters ignore punctuation characters, like the [Square brackets] in email list subject lines.

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