How to Set up a Filter in Yahoo! Mail

Systematizing your emails in web based Yahoo email account is not a complex task as it seems. Email sorting feature is helping greatly to Yahoo users in organizing the emails appropriately. Initially, you might confront trouble in dealing with the messages which you receive on a daily basis but Filtering feature in Yahoo mail account has reduced the headache of dealing with incoming mail.

Setting up Filter will help you in putting work e-mails in a different folder. Simultaneously, you can put unwanted e-mails in a spam or junk folder. Different folders in your account help you in managing and keeping your emails in a required place. Thus, this will surely help you in making your professional life easier, particularly if you are receiving too many e-mails a day.

Let’s check how it works by setting up a Filter in Yahoo mail. The steps are given below for setting up Filter in your account.

The instructions will help you to setup or create a filter in Yahoo mail:

• First, mouse over your Settings icon | choose Settings.
• After that hit Filters
• Then you need to click Add.
• And just enter a Filter Name.
• Next, enter the filter criteria.
• Afterwards, choose for delivering the affected emails to or choose New Folder for creating a new one.
• With this hit Save.
• At the end, click Save again for returning to your emails.

Go through the steps for editing filters:

Make changes to your existing filter settings:

ü In the beginning, mouse over the Settings icon | choose Settings.

ü The next step is to tap a filter name from your list.

ü And hit Edit.

ü Make the necessary changes and tap Save.

ü Finally, click Save again for returning to your email.

Read the above-mentioned instructions for editing filters in your Yahoo mail account.

Yahoo users can create 1000 filters that inform incoming messages what folder to be delivered to. Along with this, you can even direct useless email to the Trash. 

In case filters in your account doesn’t work appropriately or emails aren't sent to the right folder, you can review emails filtering instructions. All emails in an account go via the spam filter prior to going through additional filters. You can check your Spam folder in case your emails aren't in the right folder.