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Rules Processing of Group Addresses
I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address
field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; I have one rule in my system which says: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the To line does not contain 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'D' Delete it and Stop processing more rules (in this case, A, B, C and D are the several valid Earthlink email addresses which I use). How is it that a Group Name such as "Friends of the Marsh" gets past this filter and is not deleted? |
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Rules Processing of Group Addresses
Friends of The Marsh is the display name and not the address which is what
the rule applies to. Check the message source, Ctrl+F3, to see the actual address, if it is there. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Norman Litell" wrote in message nk.net... I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; I have one rule in my system which says: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the To line does not contain 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'D' Delete it and Stop processing more rules (in this case, A, B, C and D are the several valid Earthlink email addresses which I use). How is it that a Group Name such as "Friends of the Marsh" gets past this filter and is not deleted? |
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Rules Processing of Group Addresses
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Friends of The Marsh is the display name and not the address which is what the rule applies to. Check the message source, Ctrl+F3, to see the actual address, if it is there. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Norman Litell" wrote in message nk.net... I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; Clipped Is that your genuine email address as it appears above??? |
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Rules Processing of Group Addresses
Message Rules Tips
http://www.insideoe.com/tips/rules.htm Why doesn't my rule work? http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#rules -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org Norman Litell wrote: I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; I have one rule in my system which says: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the To line does not contain 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'D' Delete it and Stop processing more rules (in this case, A, B, C and D are the several valid Earthlink email addresses which I use). How is it that a Group Name such as "Friends of the Marsh" gets past this filter and is not deleted? |
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Bruce,
I had already tried looking at the actual message source -- in fact, what I put in my post was the actual "To" line clipped and pasted from the message source display. Norman "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Friends of The Marsh is the display name and not the address which is what the rule applies to. Check the message source, Ctrl+F3, to see the actual address, if it is there. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Norman Litell" wrote in message nk.net... I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; I have one rule in my system which says: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the To line does not contain 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'D' Delete it and Stop processing more rules (in this case, A, B, C and D are the several valid Earthlink email addresses which I use). How is it that a Group Name such as "Friends of the Marsh" gets past this filter and is not deleted? |
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Yes it is my actual address, and although I have seen admonitions on
"munging" the address and tried several times to do so, I haven't yet succeeded in doing so. The times I have tried to do so by going into the Account Properties screens and changing the address, OE6 gave me an error message and wouldn't send the message, saying that it wasn't in a valid format or some such thing. If you have specific instructions on how to insert a munged address into the system for these message posts, I would certainly appreciate hearing it. I am running W2KPro and IE6.0 (of course, with all latest updates loaded). Norman "antioch" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Friends of The Marsh is the display name and not the address which is what the rule applies to. Check the message source, Ctrl+F3, to see the actual address, if it is there. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Norman Litell" wrote in message nk.net... I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; Clipped Is that your genuine email address as it appears above??? |
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Snipped/clipped/contextualized for clarity
"Norman Litell" wrote in message ink.net... Yes it is my actual address, and although I have seen admonitions on "munging" the address I have yet to read anyone being admonished for munging - quite the opposite. and tried several times to do so, I haven't yet succeeded in doing so. The times I have tried to do so by going into the Account Properties Have another go If you have specific instructions on how to insert a munged address into the...... This is what I do/shown in these groups how - and I change it from time to time - don't have to - it humours me to do it. In OE - click on Tools/Accounts/News/Properties - should get a window called msnews.microsoft.com Properties. In the section marked 'User Info', type what you fancy in the E-mail Address - perhaps 'litellnospam@nospamearthlink' Hope it works :-) Antioch Norman |
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Are you saying that is the Only rule that you have?
If you have more than one message rule, is it your first rule? If you have any rules in front of that one with a Stop Processing more rules and the message matches it, then your rule will never get applied. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Norman Litell" wrote in message nk.net... I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; I have one rule in my system which says: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the To line does not contain 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'D' Delete it and Stop processing more rules (in this case, A, B, C and D are the several valid Earthlink email addresses which I use). How is it that a Group Name such as "Friends of the Marsh" gets past this filter and is not deleted? |
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Mike,
this is not the only rule I have, and it is not the first rule, it is the second. You may be correct that the rule sequence is the problem. The first rule allows a blank TO: field by stopping processing if there is not an "@" in the TO: field -- which is apparently the case here since all I can see is the Display Name. See also Bruce Hagen's earlier comments (8/9/06 -- 7:19pm) about rules not being able to filter display names. I had thought that, when I saw the Group Name in the TO: field, the actual Group Members were somehow also there in some hidden format (e.g., as if the Group Name served as a hyperlink to the list of Group Members) that was accessible to the rules processing, and therefore the first filter for blank addresses would not catch this situation. I guess not... Norman "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... Are you saying that is the Only rule that you have? If you have more than one message rule, is it your first rule? If you have any rules in front of that one with a Stop Processing more rules and the message matches it, then your rule will never get applied. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Norman Litell" wrote in message nk.net... I receive email mail from several organizations which use in the address field a Group Name instead of the names of individual addressees. Looking at the message TO: field, all one sees is a string such as: To: Friends of The Marsh:; I have one rule in my system which says: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the To line does not contain 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'D' Delete it and Stop processing more rules (in this case, A, B, C and D are the several valid Earthlink email addresses which I use). How is it that a Group Name such as "Friends of the Marsh" gets past this filter and is not deleted? |
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