Rule to identify a from address

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Anthony Chater

I am using Outlook 2003 and would like to filter mails emanating from a
specific address to a folder.
I have 2 problems:
1. While I can identify mails coming "through a specific account" but NOT
through a specific EMAIL address ... for example an alias belonging to an
account!
2. There seems to be no way of MOVING the mail to a folder. The closest
ready-made rule is "move a copy to the specified folder".
It has been possible to do this for years for years in emails clients like
Eudora ... so I cannot believe that this is not possible in Outlook ...

Can someone please point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance

Tony
 
Click Tools | Rules and Alerts
Click New Rule
Instead of using one of the predefined rules, click "Check messages after
they arrive"

This will give you all the possible options the rules offer. From accounts,
whether you are CCed or on the To line, etc...

Hope this helps,
John Guin
OneNote Test Team
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin
 
Hi John,

Perhaps I did not make this clear ... I am attmepting to filter OUTGOING
emails and I want to identify an email address (in this case an alias on one
of my configured accounts).

I have indeed chosen "Start from a blank rule" - and then chosen "Check
messages after sending".
In the next dialog there is NO option to filter on my sending email ....
that's what I find a bit primitive about Outlook .... unless I am missing
something!!

Tony
 
Anthony Chater said:
Perhaps I did not make this clear ... I am attmepting to filter OUTGOING
emails and I want to identify an email address (in this case
an alias on one of my configured accounts).
Click to expand...

No you did not make yourself clear. You said, "I am using Outlook 2003 and
would like to filter mails emanating from a specific address to a folder."
I interpreted that to mean you wanted to sort incoming mail by sender to
various folders.
I have indeed chosen "Start from a blank rule" - and then chosen
"Check messages after sending".
In the next dialog there is NO option to filter on my sending email
.... that's what I find a bit primitive about Outlook .... unless I
am missing something!!
Click to expand...

Since YOU control the sending address, YOU know which folder should contain
the message when sent. You can either choose it with View>Options before
sending or use a script to ask you for the folder, as in the following:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/setsavefolder.htm
 
OK.
.. well thanks for your reply Brian ...

So it seems the bottom line is that I have to"manually" trigger which
folder I want these mails to go to ... !!
(i.e. via view > options or a generated prompt)
It kind of defeats the reason for using a computer :-)
from my side I still cannot believe that such a simple filtering operation
cannot be fully automated in Outlook ....
I guess the solution is to find a decent email client ;-)
 
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