Sweep can also be used to create mail rules you can select the Also move future messages check box for Hotmail automatically to file all messages from that sender as they come into your inbox. On the next screen, you select the folder you want to move the messages into. Choose a message in your inbox, click Sweep, and then click Move all from.
You can use Sweep to file messages from a sender to a specific folder, delete all email from a sender, and schedule automatic cleanups.įor example, to keep all the mail from a certain sender, you can quickly move all email from them out of your inbox and into another folder. Sweep is an email add-on for bulk operations and basic mail rules. You can now clean your inbox with the very useful but poorly named Sweep. The big daddy of webmail has come along way from the weedy, insecure, mass-market webmail from the backwoods of Redmond.
In case your first reaction to Hotmail is ‘ugh!!!’ take another look. Aside from confusing the world with Windows 8, Win RT and the launch of the Surface tablet that nobody’s allowed to touch, Microsoft has been quietly adding features to Hotmail.
