Organizing Your Messages

If there are Windows Mail messages of specific types or from specific people that you want to gather together, you can create additional folders and then move the items into those folders.

Organize!

With Windows Mail running, point to Folder on the File menu, and choose New from the submenu to display the Create Folder dialog box.

Type a name for the folder.

Click the folder in which you want this new folder to be located. If you want the new folder to be at the same level as your Inbox, click Local Folders.

Click OK.

Select the messages you want to move into that folder, and drag them onto the folder.

Tip

You can also organize your messages by sorting them alphabetically. To do so, click the title of a column at the top of the message pane (From or Subject, for example) to sort by that category. Click the title a second time to reverse the order of the sort.

See Also

"Managing Your Messages Automatically" on page 68 for information about using message rules to automatically place messages in different folders.