Email filtering based on sender 's categories

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AAADiver

Hi -

I'm trying to create a mail filter based on the senders category
specification in my address book but outlook doesn't seem to let me do
this. This intent would be that whenever my friends send me an email I
can move that to the friends folder while other numerous work senders
can be filtered by project association again based on matches to their
category. Seems like this would be an obvious filter criteria but it's
not available based on sender's category, only by email category which
typically isn't set yet.

I know I can do this by specifying names in the filter rules but it's
easier to maintain names-to-categories rather than names in rules.

Anyone know of a way to add this simple rule to the email filter rule
set?

Thanks All,
Allen
 
AFAIK you can't do what you're trying to do- but you CAN
do this: add your friends to a Distibution Group and use
the distribution group in the Rule instead of the
individual names. That's what I do to get the result
you're looking for.

Hope that helps,

-Andrew Cushen
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