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Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Create/Delete Filters
A filter is a quick and easy way to sort or organize your email. Create a filter to send incoming messages to a specific folder, to mark with a specific tag or other convenient options.
Office 365 Team Junk Mail Filtering Recommendation: It is the recommendation of the Office 365 team for users to disable all local client (Outlook, Apple Mail, etc.) automated junk mail filters and local client rules/filters in Office 365. For UW-Madison users, many clients will have local junk mail filtering disabled entirely. All rules/filters should be created in Outlook on the web. Please refer to our Office 365 (Outlook on the web | Outlook for Windows/MacOS) - Using Inbox Rules document.
Create a Filter
- Open Thunderbird
- Click the Menu button to the right of the search bar (three horizontal lines)
- Highlight Message Filters then click Message Filters
- A pop up box will open with a list of current filters (if any)
- Choose New...
- Enter a name for your filter in the Filter name field
- Set what you'd like to filter for with the following options
- Subject - Words in the subject field
- Sender - Who sent the email
- Body - The text of the email
- Date - The specific date you received the email
- Priority - Important, unimportant or other
- To - Who the email is to
- Cc - Who else was copied on the email
- Age in Days
- Size
- Tags
- Set how to filter
- Contains - Words entered are contained in the parameter chosen
- Doesn't Contain - Words entered are not contained in the parameter chosen
- Is - e.g. Sender IS bbadger@wisc.edu
- Isn't - e.g. Sender ISN'T bbadger@wisc.edu
- Begins with
- Ends with
- Set what you want Thunderbird to do with emails that match your filter
- Move message to - moves message to a folder, including trash
- Copy message to - creates a copy of a message to a folder
- Forward message to - forwards to message to a folder or additional account added in Thunderbird
- Add star
- Set priority
- Tag Message
- Set Junk Status
- Delete message
- When your filter is set, click OK. Now when messages arrive that match your filter, they will be treated with the action you added.
- A quick filter allows you to quickly filter emails in one folder by read status, star status, sender, tag and attachment status and/or specific text
- Open Thunderbird
- Select the folder you wish to quick filter
- Click on Quick Filter from the top menu
- Click any quick option icons to filter by or add text into the Filter these messages... field
- Hit Return
- Thunderbird will quickly list all the emails that match your request in the folder you have selected