
On the “E-mail Rules” tab, click “Change Rule” and select “Edit Rule Settings” from the drop-down menu.Īs discussed earlier, the first screen of the “Rules Wizard” displays a list of conditions you can check for on incoming email messages. The “Rules and Alerts” dialog box displays. If you want to run the rule immediately on messages already in the inbox, select the “Run this rule now on messages already in ‘Inbox’”. The last screen allows you to specify a name for the rule, and set up some rule options, including one to “Turn on this rule” immediately. I don’t want any exceptions, so I just click “Next” to skip this screen. Choose any exceptions you want to apply to your rule and click “Next”. The next screen provides options for setting exceptions to the rule, such as if you don’t want to get a notification if the message is a meeting invitation or update. Once you’ve selected what you want done with the message, click “Next”. I want to receive a Desktop Alert when I get an email message from Whitson, so I select the last option on the list, “display a Desktop Alert”. You can do things like move the message to a specific folder, forward it to one or more people, reply using a template, or mark it as read. Now, select options to indicate what should be done with a message you receive that matches the selected conditions. Once you’ve selected the conditions you want to check, click “Next”. If you want to view an email directly from this dialog box, select the email to view and click “Open Item”. However, if there were more emails from Whitson, they would all be listed here. I currently only have one email from Whitson in my inbox, so that’s the only one listed on this dialog box. The “New Mail Alerts” dialog box will appear, demanding immediate action. I want to find out what emails are in my inbox from Whitson, so I select the check box. Click “OK” once you’ve made your choices.Ī “Success” dialog box displays with an option to “Run this rule now on messages already in the current folder”. If you don’t want to be notified of emails where you’re CC’ed or one of several recipients, select “me only” from the “Sent to” drop-down list.

I also select the “Sent to” check box and make sure my name is selected from the drop-down list, so I’ll receive notifications for emails sent from Whitson directly to me.

I want to get immediate notifications about emails I receive from Whitson, so I select the first check box. In the “Create Rule” dialog box, select the conditions on which you want to receive notifications about new email.
