Rule to identify a from address
 

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

Rule to identify a from address
 

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


"Anthony Chater" wrote:

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

Rule to identify a from address
 

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





"John Guin" john (dot) guin (at) hotmail.com wrote in message
...
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


"Anthony Chater" wrote:

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

Rule to identify a from address
 

Anthony Chater wrote:

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).

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!!

Since YOU control the sending address, YOU know which folder should contain
the message when sent. You can either choose it with ViewOptions before
sending or use a script to ask you for the folder, as in the following:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/setsavefolder.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Rule to identify a from address
 

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 ;-)



"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Anthony Chater wrote:

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).

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!!

Since YOU control the sending address, YOU know which folder should
contain the message when sent. You can either choose it with ViewOptions
before sending or use a script to ask you for the folder, as in the
following: http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/setsavefolder.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]