Perhaps you're a student who has to submit all your work to your professors through e-mail. Or maybe you manage many people and you need to know who's reading your mail and when. Processing and organizing these messages can be tricky if you try to do it by hand.

Instead of manually moving each "read" or "not read" receipt to its own folder, use the Outlook 2002 Rules Wizard to help you automatically process and organize these messages.

To create a rule for read receipts

1. On the Tools menu, click Rules Wizard.
2. In the Rules Wizard dialog box, click New.
3. In the next dialog box, select Start creating a rule from a template.
4. Select Move messages based on content.
5. In the Rule description box, click specific words.
6. In the text box, type Read:, click Add, and then click OK. If this is a rule for "not read" receipts, type Not read:.
7. In the Rule description box, click specified.
8. Under Choose a folder, locate the folder where you want the "read" (or "not read") receipts to go to, and select it. Click OK.

   Note  You can also click New to create a special folder for this purpose (instead of choosing an existing folder).

9. Click Finish, and then click OK.