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How to Group Your List Emails in Outlook

How to Group Your List Emails in Outlook

April 27, 2020 By mark david mcCreary Leave a Comment

Getting too many emails from your email discussion list? Are they drowning out your work and personal emails? Use Outlook? Want to know how to filter listserv emails in Outlook? Here’s how to put your list emails into their own folder in both Outlook, desktop version. See here for another guide on how to put emails in their own folder in Outlook, the online version.

How to Filter Listserv Emails in Outlook, Desktop Version

There are two ways to do this in Outlook for desktop. You can create a “Search Folder,” which will only bring up emails that you tell it too. (Without removing the emails from your main inbox.) Or you can create a new, regular folder and a “Rule,” which will move the mail from your inbox to that folder.

Search Folder

To create a Search Folder, go to the “Folder” ribbon or tab. Click “New Search Folder.”


You’ll get this window.

Scroll to the bottom and double-click “Create a custom Search Folder.”


Name your folder and then click “Criteria…”


In the “From” field, add the email address of your listserv. Or double-click “From…” to select it from your contacts. Then click “OK.” Click “OK” again. And click “OK” a third time.

You should now have a folder that will only show emails from your listserv. This won’t keep them from cluttering up your inbox however.

Rules

For that you’ll want to create a different kind of folder and create a “Rule.” For this method you will have to already have received at least one email from your discussion list.

Go to the “Folder” ribbon or tab. Click “New Folder.”


You should see this window:


Name your folder and click “OK.”

Now go to the “Home” ribbon or tab and click “Rules.” It should be near the middle.


Make sure that an email from your listserv is selected. Now click “Create Rule.”


In this new box, check “From [name of group, email of group] and “Move item to folder:”. Click “Select Folder…” and select the folder you created earlier. Now click “OK.”

Congratulations! You’ve set up a new rule that will transfer all your listerv emails into a new folder!





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