Automate — put your inbox to work for you

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

Now Playing - Scheduled Cleanup

Scheduled Cleanup

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

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 categorized 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 email from that sender, and finally send any new ones that arrive straight to your junk mail until you're taken off their list.

Categories for all your email

Hotmail automatically categorizes newsletters, social updates and photos. Create your own custom categories for different types of mail, groups of people or anything else 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.

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 organized for all the mail you have now and for all the mail you receive in the future.

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