Create E-mail Rules

If you find yourself doing the same tasks with certain kinds of e-mail, you can probably configure Mail to do those tasks for you automatically by configuring rules, which are automatic actions that Mail performs for you.

To determine whether you can create a rule, you need to be able to define the conditions under which one or more actions should be taken, and the actions you want to happen every time those conditions are met. In the following steps, you learn how to create a rule to automatically file e-mails from specific people in a folder and to alert you that they have arrived. You can configure other rules similarly.

Create E-mail Rules

Press +.

Click the Rules tab.

The center pane shows the configured rules. By default, you see a rule for e-mail from Apple.