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How to use Entourage X with GUMail: Using Rules

What are rules?
Ever wish that all the mail sent from your friends would automatically go to a special folder called "Friends," or all the mail from your boss would go to the trash? Well, if you want to make these things happen, you can! Rules can process your incoming messages in many different and useful ways; once you learn the basics of creating a rule, don't hesitate to experiment with the many available settings.

Before you begin using rules, you should have a general idea about how they work, and be familiar with some of their limitations:

Entourage X rules only work with Entourage X; they do not work with Netscape Messenger, Qualcomm Eudora, or other e-mail programs. Your rules will not work while Entourage X is not running.
Rules will only work on the computer where you originally created them. If you check your mail from a computer that doesn't have your rules saved on it, all new incoming messages will arrive in your Inbox (they will not be processed according to your rules).
If you are running Entourage X on two computers with the same rules at the same time, you will may get two copies of each e-mail that arrives.