2003 Rules question. Anyone? Spent hours on this.

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I have my regular ISP email address, and a forwarding email address, that
forwards some of my email to my ISP address. I get email to both addresses
daily.

I created a rule to move all mail where "my name is not in the To box" to a
test folder, with the eventual goal of changing it to "Permanently Delete."
However, it only works for the email address that is set up in my Mail
Account, and not my forwarding address. (Which makes sense.) But I want to
create this rule for both email addresses, otherwise, I am only getting half
the benefit of the rule.

I've searched Google and found nothing. I played with "With Specific words
in the recipients address," then adding '(e-mail address removed). Then moving
it to inbox, but that wouldn't work, because then any Junk Mail with that
address would go to my inbox. I have given this a lot of effort, and am
stumped.

As we all know, many people have 10s, even hundreds of forwarding email
addresses going to one ISP account. The ability to create a rule for all of
them in one rule, to me, is crucial for email management.

Is there any way to create this rule for two or more email addresses?
Thanks.

BTW. Thanks for great product Microsoft! The more I play with 2003, the more
I love it.
 
does the other account get spam? if you add a rule where you also look for
mail sent to the other address, it won't get rid of a lot of the spam. (Sent
to people or dis. list, which probably does the same as words in header)

Rules are good for sorting mail sent to different accounts but if you need
better junk protection you need to use programs like mailwasher to filter
unwanted mail, not rules.

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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, Visual Quick Start Guide - OneNote 2003


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of you could just use outlook 2003's junk email filter, which does exactly
that ?
Diane Poremsky said:
does the other account get spam? if you add a rule where you also look for
mail sent to the other address, it won't get rid of a lot of the spam. (Sent
to people or dis. list, which probably does the same as words in header)

Rules are good for sorting mail sent to different accounts but if you need
better junk protection you need to use programs like mailwasher to filter
unwanted mail, not rules.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, Visual Quick Start Guide - OneNote 2003


http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com
Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30


Flatch U. Lance said:
I have my regular ISP email address, and a forwarding email address, that
forwards some of my email to my ISP address. I get email to both addresses
daily.

I created a rule to move all mail where "my name is not in the To box"
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test folder, with the eventual goal of changing it to "Permanently Delete."
However, it only works for the email address that is set up in my Mail
Account, and not my forwarding address. (Which makes sense.) But I want to
create this rule for both email addresses, otherwise, I am only getting half
the benefit of the rule.

I've searched Google and found nothing. I played with "With Specific words
in the recipients address," then adding '(e-mail address removed). Then moving
it to inbox, but that wouldn't work, because then any Junk Mail with that
address would go to my inbox. I have given this a lot of effort, and am
stumped.

As we all know, many people have 10s, even hundreds of forwarding email
addresses going to one ISP account. The ability to create a rule for all of
them in one rule, to me, is crucial for email management.

Is there any way to create this rule for two or more email addresses?
Thanks.

BTW. Thanks for great product Microsoft! The more I play with 2003, the more
I love it.
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