Wharton Computing Student Support

Manage Your Email

Actively managing your email can save hours of time and energy down the road. These tips apply to most email readers although Wharton recommends using Outlook 2007 to manage your mail, calendar and contacts:

Screen Incoming Mail
Use tools to screen and sort your email before it reaches your Inbox.

• Turn on Your Spam filter
• Write rules for incoming email -- Outlook 2007

Sort Your Mail

Create folders in your account to sort mail before you read it.

• Creating Server-side folders.
  Use the "create new folder" option under the File menu in Outlook to create folders on the server. You can then write rules to automatically sort incoming messages.
• Creating personal folders
  • Outlook 2007
  • Outlook 2003

Manage Your Quota
Use storage strategies to remove mail from your Wharton account, freeing up space so that you don't run out of quota. Some options are:

• Check Your Email Quota
• Creating Personal folders (See Sort Your Mail, above)
• Auto Archive Old Messages

More Tips for Outlook Users