Email from contacts ONLY

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Nate

Being a microsoft product, I would find this to be like
finding Atlantis. But anyways, is there a way to ONLY
receive emails from people in my Address Book? If not,
is there a GOOD program to help out? (Possibly Freeware)
 
What version of Outlook are you using and are you completely against using a
paid program, since someone spent some time, thought and effort into
building such a program? There may be something out there that does this
but you will need to post your version of Outlook for meaningful assistance.

Oh, and you can drop the Microsoft digs.


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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Nate asked:

| Being a microsoft product, I would find this to be like
| finding Atlantis. But anyways, is there a way to ONLY
| receive emails from people in my Address Book? If not,
| is there a GOOD program to help out? (Possibly Freeware)
 
Nate said in news:[email protected]:
I am using 2002 (XP). I don't mind a paid program, as
long as it works. "Microsoft digs"?
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So why not just define a rule?

Apply this rule after the message arrives
sender is in <contactsfolder> Address Book
[stop processing more rules]

... any other rules you want to exercise, like organzing your
incoming known-sender e-mails ...

Apply this rule after the message arrives
move to Junk folder (or [permanently] delete)
stop processing more rules

The stop clause in the first rule is optional. If you don't use the
stop clause, you could still do some organization or flagging or your
known senders. If the stop clause is used, all the rest of the rules
are to process unwanted e-mails. You might, for example, what to follow
with some rules for whitelisting those newsletters you subscribed to.
If the sender is unknown, eventually you hit the last rule that deletes,
moves, or does whatever you want with all those unknown-sender e-mails.

Alternatively, if you absolutely don't want any emails other than from
known senders, place the following rule wherever appropriate in your
rules list:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
move to Junk folder (or [permanently] delete)
except if sender is in <contactsfolder> Address Book
stop processing more rules

Just make sure your all your contact-type folder(s) are configured to be
included in Outlook's Address Book (which is really a container and not
itself an address book). Microsoft only lets you specify one
contact-type folder per clause so if you have N contact-type folders
then you need N rules, as in:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
sender is in 'Contacts' Address Book
stop processing more rules

Apply this rule after the message arrives
send is in 'Job Contacts' Address Book
stop processing more rules

... (repeat for as many contact-type folders as you have ) ...

... (rules for e-mails from other than known senders, like
whitelisting rules for newsletters) ...

Apply this rule after the message arrives
[permanently] delete it
stop processing more rules
 
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