Today, email is a great way to communicate between peoples beside Short Message Service (SMS) and instant messaging service. With email you can receive attachment file and large text with it. Including if you’ve joined with many mailing lists, you’ll many emails every day from them. And if you don’t organize your entire emails you can be confuse when you want read it at next day.

This time, I want to share a tutorial to organize your emails using Email Mac OS X built-in application. This application is powerful email client application for me. In my experiment, it can filter tons spam and junk email with training it even for just once.

All right, I consider you join into Visual Basic programming mailing list and you want to group that mailing list into one mail box.
1. Open Mail application by click it on launcher bar.

2. Create a new mail box first by click Mailbox -> New Mailbox menu.

3. Give it name which represents the mailing list name such as Visual Basic Mailing List.

4. If it is success, you can see it on left sidebar.

5. In your Inbox, select an example message. This message will extract its information which will need in filter settings later. So, in my case I click a message which came from Visual Basic Mailing list.

6. Then click Mail -> Preferences menu.

7. Click Rules tab, and then click Add Rule button.

8. Enter you own rule name in Description box. Make sure, you give it a represents name. Choose any value on If any of the following conditions are met combo box. Choose To and Contains value in next combo box and it will enter the mailing list address automatically (It takes value from your selected message). In those both combo boxes you can customize the value, just look your needs. In next combo box, choose Move Message value and choose your mail box name (in my case I chose Visual Basic Mailing List value) in to mailbox combo box. You can also adjust its value as your need. And click OK button when you’ve done.

9. Click Yes button when you are confirming to apply the new rule.

10. And my messages which came from the Visual Basic mailing list will move into Visual Basic Mailing List mailbox automatically.

Now, your emails are more organize.
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