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</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
+ <example id="filter-example">
+ <title>Using a Filter to Avoid Spam</title>
+ <para>
+ The majority of bulk mail is tagged with the
+ <computeroutput>Precedence: Bulk</computeroutput> header at
+ one point or another. Some of these messages, of course,
+ could be in mailing lists you've subscribed to, but many of
+ them are unsolicited commercial email.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To catch them and put them all in one place, create a
+ new filter for incoming mail. Then:
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Set the first part of your search critera to look in a <guilabel>Specific header</guilabel>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Enter <userinput>Precedence</userinput> as the name of the header.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Choose <guilabel>contains</guilabel> at the second drop-down box.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Enter <userinput>Bulk</userinput> as the content to search for.
+ You're now working with all email that has the word "Bulk" in the
+ "Precedence" header.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ For actions, select "Move to Folder" and choose the
+ folder where you'd like to place bulk mail.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ If you like, add an action and choose <guilabel>Stop
+ Processing</guilabel> if you'd like this message to be
+ ignored by all other filters.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ Click OK. You're done.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </para>
+ </example>
</sect2>
+
+
<sect2 id="filters-edit">
<title>Editing Filters</title>
diff --git a/help/ChangeLog b/help/ChangeLog
index 63c1785903..7092fb36eb 100644
--- a/help/ChangeLog
+++ b/help/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-10-05 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>
+
+ * C/usage-mail-org.sgml: added example to filter bulk mail.
+
2001-10-01 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>
* C/usage-mail.sgml: missing directory for figure file ref.