Automate — put your inbox to work for you

Imagine your inbox tailored to just the way that you use it - bills in one folder, travel receipts in another and only the latest daily deals. Set up your inbox to manage your mail automatically with rules to schedule cleanups and unsubscribe.

Now Playing - Schedule clean-up

Schedule clean-up

What if you could set up rules in your inbox so that you only see the latest daily deals and all the expired ones have been deleted automatically? Sweep now includes an option for Schedule clean-up. Schedule clean-up automatically keeps only the latest mail from a sender, and deletes or files away the rest.

Play - Unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters

Unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters

As much as 50% of your inbox is made up of newsletters. We've automatically added unsubscribe links at the bottom of emails categorised as newsletters. Click on unsubscribe, and we'll do the rest - let the site know to stop mailing you, use Sweep to immediately remove all the emails from that sender and finally send any new ones that arrive straight to your junk mail until you're taken off their list.

Play - Categories for all your email

Categories for all your email

Hotmail automatically categorises newsletters, social updates and photos. Create your own custom categories for different types of mail, groups of people or anything else that you want. And you can also set up instant actions to quickly file mail into those custom categories or automate cleanups that automatically move mail there.

Play - Everything in its place with Sweep

Everything in its place with Sweep

More than setting up rules, Sweep lets you file emails straight to a folder automatically based on the sender's email address. Bank statements into one folder, bills into another. Then set up Sweep so that your inbox gets organised for all the mail that you have now, and for all the mail that you will receive in the future.

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Conquer greymail

Conquer Greymail

With powerful new tools like Sweep, Categories and Flags, you can quickly unclutter your inbox. See how. >

What is Greymail?

What is Greymail?

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Email basics done correctly

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