I
get a ton of email daily, and outside of the standard spam, which gets handled
reasonably well by spam filters, most of it is stuff I don’t need to handle
right away—information from friends, recipes, sales from local stores, and so
on. It would be great if there was some way to automatically move these emails
into another location, so I could focus on the important stuff.
This question comes to us as if
written by a Microsoft marketing person! If you’re using any of the Microsoft
email services (Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, MSN.com, or Office 365), you have
access to a great, relatively new feature named (appropriately) Clutter. These
email services all provide the ability to sweep “clutter” from your inbox into
a separate folder, again appropriately named Clutter. Note that the Clutter
folder is meant for things other than spam or dangerous spam/phishing-related
emails—it’s for legitimate email that simply isn’t urgent.
Microsoft makes it simple to manage
your Clutter folder, as well. If you find an email in your Inbox folder that
isn’t important, move it to the Clutter folder, and the mail engine will
classify emails like that one as Clutter from then. The converse works as well:
If an email ends up in the Clutter folder but it’s important, move it to the
Inbox and future similar emails will remain in your Inbox folder.
Note that this feature works only
with Microsoft’s email products. Google/Gmail provides a similar, if not quite
as mature, feature using automatic labelling. If you want to clear your inbox
from all the clutter, however, Microsoft makes this the easiest. Of course,
Outlook.com and the rest of Microsoft’s online email services are free.
For more information on configuring
and using Microsoft’s Clutter folder, check out this article: http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/03/making-clutter-office-365-even-better/.
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