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title: How to manage your email filters on Web Hosting Classic
description: This page shows you how to manage your email filters on Scaleway Web Hosting Classic.
tags: webhosting email-filter filter email
dates:
  validation: 2025-08-21
  posted: 2021-05-26
---
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Email filters allow you to sort your emails based on the sender, subject, and more. If an email meets one or more criteria, you can define different actions, such as deleting or moving it into a folder. Email filters only work on email accounts.

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- A Dedibox account logged into the [console](https://console.online.net)
- Created a **Webhosting Classic**

## How to configure your email filters?

1. Log into your [Scaleway webmail](https://webmail.online.net/) account.
2. Click **Settings** in the upper right corner of your screen, then click **Filters**. You can create filter groups, and activate or deactivate your filters by groups to easily manage your emails.

    <Message type="important">
    - Ensure no filter is active. If you activate a new filter group, the previous one will be disabled.
    - We do not recommend naming your filter group console, as this is the name for default filters.

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## How to add new filter groups?

1. Log into your [Scaleway webmail](https://webmail.online.net/) account.
2. Click **Settings** in the upper right corner of your screen, then click **Filters**.
3. Click **+** under the **Filter sets** column.
4. Enter the name of your filter group in **Filters set name**.
5. You can either import filters from a file or from another filter group.

## How to add a filter?

1. Log into your [Scaleway webmail](https://webmail.online.net/) account.
2. Click **Settings** in the upper right corner of your screen, then click **Filters**.
3. Click **+** under the **Filters** column.
4. Enter the name of your filter in **Filter name**.
5. Two input fields display. **For incoming mail** defines the requirements so that the mails undergo the action selected in the **execute the following actions** field.
6. Once you have added your filter, click **Save**.

## How to configure an automatic response?

<Message type="important">
  Setting up an automatic response on incoming mails can be useful when you will not have access to your mails for a while.
</Message>

1. Log into your [Scaleway webmail](https://webmail.online.net/) account.
2. [Add a new filter](#how-to-add-a-filter) and name it **Auto Reply**. It should appear at the bottom of your filter list, under **antispam** and **antivirus**.
3. Select **all messages** in the **For incoming mail** input field.
4. Select **Reply with message** in the **execute the following actions** input field.
5. Write your message in **Message body**.
6. Type in **[Auto reply]** in **Message subject**.
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7. Click **Save**.