How do I redirect mail into different folders 

                                for different users with Outlook Express?

Step 1: Create folders for the different mail users to use.

1. Start Outlook Express.

2.  Click on the “File” menu at the top and then choose “Folder”.

3. Click on “New”.

4. Highlight “Local Folders” and then type in the name of the folder in the fill-in box. (We’ll use Bob for our example.) Then click the OK button. This will create a folder for Bob’s mail.

Step 2: Tell Outlook Express to transfer mail to Bob’s folder when it checks mail

1. From the “Tools” menu select “Message Rules” and then select “Mail”.

2. Click on the “Mail Rules” tab (if it is not already selected), then click on the New button.

3. In the #1 box, check the box to the left of “where the to line contains people”. This will identify the recipient. (Bob in our example.)

4. In the #2 box, click on “move to a specified folder”.

5. In box #3, double-click on the contains people words. A window will open. Type in the address name. For our example we’ll use “bob@rrt.net.” Then click on the ADD button.

6. Click on the OK button and the window will close.

7. Click on specified and a window will open asking which folder to send the mail to. In our example we will click on “Bob”. Then click on the OK button to close the window.

8. Optional (You can name the rule in box #4. We’ll call ours “Transfer Bob’s mail.”)

9. Click on the OK button to close the New Mail Rule window.

10. Click on the OK button to close the Message Rules window.

11. Now all incoming mail addressed to bob@rrt.net will be stored in the folder marked “Bob” in Outlook Express.

12. Repeat this procedure for each mailbox check by Outlook Express.

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