Hello folks, how can I tell Outlook 2003 to NOT download
any mail from a specific person ( Name )

Thanks

You can't. Outlook rules act on messages once they hit the in-box. I would
look to your ISP webmail if they have it to set up a rule on their server.

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After furious head scratching, GESY asked:

| Hello folks, how can I tell Outlook 2003 to NOT download
| any mail from a specific person ( Name )
|
| Thanks

I tough you could "Filter" ?

If the sender name match, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD.

Humm, any idea to on something like this on Outlook ?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
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You can't. Outlook rules act on messages once they hit the in-box. I
would
look to your ISP webmail if they have it to set up a rule on their server.

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After furious head scratching, GESY asked:

| Hello folks, how can I tell Outlook 2003 to NOT download
| any mail from a specific person ( Name )
|
| Thanks

"GESY" wrote in message
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I tough you could "Filter" ?

If the sender name match, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD.

Humm, any idea to on something like this on Outlook ?


In Outlook EXPRESS, yes, you can block the download of the *rest* of the
message AFTER the headers have been downloaded. However, Outlook
doesn't have that rule condition; i.e., Outlook must download all of the
message before it then exercises any rules against it. (The only
exception is that you can configure to not download messages larger than
a specified number of bytes in size but then you get stuck having to
mark which ones to get and then manually download the marked items.)
Outlook does NOT have the "delete from server" rule condition available
in Outlook Express.

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Thanks, now I remember, I knew something like that, it was Express.
Oh well..........

How abour secure group or something like that, I hear something like that
too, damm, I loss my notes on a crash / restore.

You can create a SAFE group that the mail will come in, while anyone
not on that group will not be downloaded ?

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"GESY" wrote in message
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I tough you could "Filter" ?

If the sender name match, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD.

Humm, any idea to on something like this on Outlook ?


In Outlook EXPRESS, yes, you can block the download of the *rest* of the
message AFTER the headers have been downloaded. However, Outlook doesn't
have that rule condition; i.e., Outlook must download all of the message
before it then exercises any rules against it. (The only exception is
that you can configure to not download messages larger than a specified
number of bytes in size but then you get stuck having to mark which ones
to get and then manually download the marked items.) Outlook does NOT have
the "delete from server" rule condition available in Outlook Express.

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"GESY" wrote in message
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Thanks, now I remember, I knew something like that, it was Express.
Oh well..........

How abour secure group or something like that, I hear something like
that
too, damm, I loss my notes on a crash / restore.

You can create a SAFE group that the mail will come in, while anyone
not on that group will not be downloaded ?


Done using rules to create a whitelist of accepted senders. However,
and because it is a rule, it gets exercised AFTER the entire message has
been retrieved. You can define the rule to:

Move/delete/whatever all mails
except those senders[listed in this rule | in a contact-type folder]

If you choose to use a contact-type folder to list your known good
senders, Outlook doesn't let you specify multiple contact-type folders
within the same rule. That is, you cannot have a dozen contact-type
folders and list all dozen of them within the same rule (i.e., if sender
is in contact1 or contact2 or ...). You need a separate rule to test if
the sender is in the contact-folder for each contact-folder. Rules are
OR'ed in the order they are listed, so just don't use the stop clause in
the rule so each contact-type rule will get OR'ed with the next one and
use the stop clause in the last contact-type rule.

Since Outlook will still require the download of the entire message
before it will exercise a rule, you may want to do something like:

Move all mails to some folder other than the Inbox
except those senders in your contact-type folder
[optionally use stop clause in last contact-type rule]

That way the only mails that will left in your Inbox are from known good
senders in your contact-type folder(s) and all others have been moved to
some other holding folder, you [permanently] delete them, send them to
the Junk folder, to some "suspect" folder under the Inbox, or do
whatever you want with them. This makes your Inbox exclusive to only
showing mails from your known senders. The other will get fully
downloaded but won't be in your Inbox.

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