In between useful email and junk email, there’s a range of messages that aren’t totally without value, but distract from the things we most need to focus on. These emails can be considered clutter, which is also the name Microsoft has given a feature to move them out of the way so that we can attend to vital emails first.
Clutter helps filter your low-priority email—saving time for your most important messages. It works like this: The email server learns what you ignore and what you don’t. As new email comes in, Clutter takes messages you’re most likely to ignore and puts them in the new “Clutter” folder. Once you turn it on, Clutter is automatic. The more you use it, the better it gets.
Beginning June 15, Microsoft will start turning Clutter on by default for organizations that use Office 365.
If you decide the feature isn’t for you, you can turn it off by clicking a link at the bottom of any Clutter notification, or by turning it off from Outlook Web App.
How to turn the Clutter email feature on or off in OWA: http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/guides/facstaff_email/clutter-activate.cfm
To find out more about this new feature, please see:
http://itnews.cornell.edu/Z4G