A rule for creating a folder based on sender's name and move messages to it

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Is there a way to create a rule, so that it:
1) looks at the sender of the incoming email
2)
a) moves message to a folder corresponding to sender's name, if folder
already exists; else
b) creates a personal folder with the sender's name and then move the
message into the new folder.
Example:
Incoming email from Angel Sodano.
Folder named "ANGEL SODANO" exists -> move message into this folder.
Incoming email from Angelo Sodano.
Folder named "ANGELO Sodano" does not exist -> create folder named
"ANGELO Sodano", move the new message into that folder.
 
Is there a way to create a rule, so that it:
1) looks at the sender of the incoming email
2)
a) moves message to a folder corresponding to sender's name, if folder
already exists; else
b) creates a personal folder with the sender's name and then move the
message into the new folder.
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Great question!
I am not aware of a method of doing this nativly using the built in rules
wizard. With this being said you could achieve this if you are willing to do
a little scripting or if you want to delve into this further have an
application that performs this task. The easiest way to do this would
probably be to create a new rule that run's a script that would be
responsible for implementing this functionality.

If we take this a little further though I am assuming that you want to file
correspondance from specific people so that you can find information easily?
Would this be correct? The reason I ask is that there are several other
methods that you can use to achieve a similar result. For example you could
create a view that groups by sender. If you wanted to do even more filtering
you could have custom views on search folders as well.

Thanks
 
hprod said:
Is there a way to create a rule, so that it:
1) looks at the sender of the incoming email
2)
a) moves message to a folder corresponding to sender's name, if folder
already exists;
Easy.

else
b) creates a personal folder with the sender's name and then move the
message into the new folder.
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Not possible. Folders cannot be created by rule.
 
not natively, but it's possible as there are addins that do it. It's really
not a very good way to handle mail though - it's too easy to lose messages
this way.
 
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