The instructions on this page will help you to create a rule designed to block messages sent to the new “All-Campus-Community” or “All-Campus-Personal” email groups. If you would rather not receive these emails, follow this procedure to opt out. Furthermore, this procedure could be modified to create other types of rules. Hopefully this will give you more control over your GroupWise account.

1. Open GroupWise. Click on the Tools menu and select the Rules option.

2. When the Rules window appears, click the New button.

3. Now you can give the rule a name such as “Block All-Campus-Community”. Make sure the Received box is checked. Make sure the Mail box is checked under the Item types selection. Now click on the Define Conditions button.

4. In the Define Conditions window, select To from the drop-down box on the left. Now type in “All-Campus-Community” or “All-Campus-Personal” without the quotes into the text box on the right. The line at the top should now read “Include entries where… To contains ‘All-Campus-Community’”. (To block both email groups, you can either create another rule or you can define further conditions on this rule by selecting Or instead of End. This will open a new line which can be defined to include the other email group.) Click the OK button.

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You could also block a particular sender from a group if that person’s messages are of no interest to you. After you define the group that the messages are sent to, then select And instead of End. Now select the additional condition as From, then type the person’s name in the box. Click the OK button.

5. Now click on the Add Action button and select Delete/Decline. A comment box may pop up, but this only applies to declined appointments. You can just click OK on this comment box. You could also select Empty Item to delete the item directly without sending it to the Trash first. Click on the Save button to finish creating your rule.

6. In the Rules window, your new rule should now appear with a check mark next to its name (see the screenshot above.) This means that the rule is currently enabled and will take affect immediately. Click on the Close button to finish.

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