Tips & Tricks

Label Netscape Mail with Color

Yesterday I told you how to make some email stand out from others in the Outlook Express inbox. Today I'll show all the Netscape Mail users how to do this.

Go to Edit / Preferences then under "Mail & Newsgroups" select "Labels". There are five colors listed with default labels: Important, Work, Personal, etc. You can change these by typing in the box

After you finish, click OK. Now, let's put these labels to work by using Message Filters...

Go to Tools / Message Filters and select the email address you want to apply the filter to and click "New". Give the filter a name.

Select the radio button marked "Match any of the following". Where it says "Subject", click the arrow to reveal the drop down menu options and choose "Sender" (you can, of worse, choose another option). If you want the filter applied to a whole domain (like "worldstart.com"), then leave the next button as contains. If you are filtering addresses, you can change it to "is". Enter the email address or domain in the box. To add additional names, just click "More".

Change the action to "Label the Message", then select the label from the next box. Click OK when done. Follow this procedure some more to create other contact label lists.

Now, when you check your Inbox, messages from various senders will be in different colors, making it easier to notice them. You can even create one just for "worldstart.com" making it easier to find our newsletters no matter what the displayed name is!) Another neat thing is that you can click the "Label" column of your Inbox to sort by color.

I hope you find this one as useful as I did.

~ David

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