Filter rule for a specific alphabetic letter?

[joemiller]

Can i make a rule to send all emails that have one specific letter in a sender's name to a box other than the inbox?

[gmayor]

Yes - Use the new rule options to apply rules on messages you receive with specific words in the sender's address. For this purpose a letter is a 'word'.

As only specific characters are allowable in an e-mail address, it is likely to produce some false positives when selecting messages with only one chosen letter in the address.

[joemiller]

thanks for the help … much appreciated.

I still cannot figure out how to specify just a single letter when
I step thru the following:

‘manage rules and alerts’ from ‘rules’ drop-down list.
‘new rule’ in the ‘E-mail rules’ tab displays the rules wizard.
step 1 in ‘move messages from someone to a folder’.
step 2 ‘apply this rule after the message arrives from people
or public group’.

I can then apparently pick only from my address book [i.e.]
I cannot figure out how to specify just the letter ‘z’
for instance?

[gmayor]

You went wrong at Step 1. Create a new rule to apply to messages you receive - see http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/defa...k2013rules.pdf and at item 7, select Specific Words in the Senders address.

[joemiller]

got it done. remains only to see if I did it correctly.
many thanks again for the help.