Use inbox rules to automatically perform specific actions on email messages that come into your inbox.

Manage email messages by using rules. Training: Use rules to organize your email in Outlook. Create a rule based on a message, or from a template. Watch this online video to learn how.

Rules are either executed before a message or item reaches your device (server-side) or when the message or item arrives on your device (client-side). The way rules are executed depends on which …

Rules let you handle email messages automatically based on a variety of different criteria. For example, you can move all messages from someone into a folder, or immediately delete all messages from a …

Conditional formatting is a way to make email messages in Outlook stand out when they meet conditions defined by you. When you specify conditions that an incoming message should meet, such as a …

Clean up your inbox and keep your email organized with automatic filtering and sorting, and by using tools on the command bar like Sweep, Archive, and Move to. You can also organize your email using …

You can use inbox rules to automatically forward or redirect messages sent to your mailbox to another account. Messages that are forwarded will appear to be forwarded from you.

Training: Use Sweep, Archive, rules, and more in Outlook on the web to organize your inbox. Watch this video to learn how.

Compose a message now, but schedule it to be sent later.

If you want replies to messages that are automatically sent to another address to go to the original sender, Use rules to automatically forward messages to create a redirect rule.

You can import or export rules for Outlook messages so that others can use them. When you import rules to an Outlook account, they are added to the end of the existing list of rules.