Windows Phone Thoughts: Filter Your Exchange Email Before It Reaches Your Device!

"We all know the problem: e-mail you don't need or never want is still sent to you, and it ends up on the place where it takes the most effort to ignore or remove it: your mobile inbox. This could make mobile e-mail even counterproductive. It isn't just SPAM, it can be anything. It comes from friends and colleagues too. It can be the invitation to yet another party, people fighting over something using e-mail as a medium (and you in the CC), invitations to eat cake to celebrate something, a complaint about workplace tidyness or someone reporting that a car has its lights on in the parkinglot. It is completely nonsense, especially since you will probably be out of the office anyway. But it will still trigger an alarm you will respond to. It is noise in your daily routine. It makes you less effective and it should go."

Jaap Van Ekris over at Modern Nomads sent us a note about the new tutorial / wiki page they have up regarding server-side filtering. I have several filters setup in Outlook (and a few on my exchange server for the rest of my users) and have to say that they do make life a lot easier for all involved. Cut down on the amount of junk reaching your mobile device by creating some filters today!