Hello,

How can I set up a rule to handle mail conditional on both the sender of
e-mail and the person (if he or she is a different person) on whose behalf
the e-mail was sent?

I ask this question because I use rules on incoming e-mail to sort messages
into one folder with e-mail from senders in my outlook address book and
another folder with unknown senders - usually mostly spam as you can imagine.

I have noticed that it doesn't work quite right when e-mail is sent by one
person "on behalf of" another. (e.g. mail from on
behalf of ). When such a message arrives, the rule
that sorts the mail identifies the sender as and
takes no notice of . So if Bob has not given me Al's
e-mail address to add to my contacts, then the messsage gets shunted into the
ignominy of the unknown senders folder.

When I noticed this behavior, I tried to amend my rule to include behavior
based on this type of sender, but I can't see how to do so.

So, my question is: How can I set up a rule to handle mail conditional on
both the sender of e-mail and the person (if he or she is a different person)
on whose behalf the e-mail was sent?

In case it's relevant, I am using Outlook 2003 and all my e-mail comes in
from a POP3 server.

Thank you in advance for any help that somebody may be able to provide.

John

How is your rule worded? Have you tried using "with specific words in the
sender's address"?

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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"John Bigelow" wrote:

Hello,

How can I set up a rule to handle mail conditional on both the sender of
e-mail and the person (if he or she is a different person) on whose behalf
the e-mail was sent?

I ask this question because I use rules on incoming e-mail to sort messages
into one folder with e-mail from senders in my outlook address book and
another folder with unknown senders - usually mostly spam as you can imagine.

I have noticed that it doesn't work quite right when e-mail is sent by one
person "on behalf of" another. (e.g. mail from on
behalf of ). When such a message arrives, the rule
that sorts the mail identifies the sender as and
takes no notice of . So if Bob has not given me Al's
e-mail address to add to my contacts, then the messsage gets shunted into the
ignominy of the unknown senders folder.

When I noticed this behavior, I tried to amend my rule to include behavior
based on this type of sender, but I can't see how to do so.

So, my question is: How can I set up a rule to handle mail conditional on
both the sender of e-mail and the person (if he or she is a different person)
on whose behalf the e-mail was sent?

In case it's relevant, I am using Outlook 2003 and all my e-mail comes in
from a POP3 server.

Thank you in advance for any help that somebody may be able to provide.

John

Hello Jocelyn,

Thank you for helping me with this. The answer to your question is, "Yes."
That is exactly how I set up the rule. I can't be sure, but it appears as if
what happens is that when the mail comes from

on behalf of

that the rule treats only as the sender,
ignoring everything that comes after, with the result that the criterion
doesn't match, and so the mail is not sorted. As I say, I'm not sure, but
the behavior I have seen is consistent with this (discouraging) hypothesis.

John

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

How is your rule worded? Have you tried using "with specific words in the
sender's address"?

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"John Bigelow" wrote:

Hello,

How can I set up a rule to handle mail conditional on both the sender of
e-mail and the person (if he or she is a different person) on whose behalf
the e-mail was sent?

I ask this question because I use rules on incoming e-mail to sort messages
into one folder with e-mail from senders in my outlook address book and
another folder with unknown senders - usually mostly spam as you can imagine.

I have noticed that it doesn't work quite right when e-mail is sent by one
person "on behalf of" another. (e.g. mail from on
behalf of ). When such a message arrives, the rule
that sorts the mail identifies the sender as and
takes no notice of . So if Bob has not given me Al's
e-mail address to add to my contacts, then the messsage gets shunted into the
ignominy of the unknown senders folder.

When I noticed this behavior, I tried to amend my rule to include behavior
based on this type of sender, but I can't see how to do so.

So, my question is: How can I set up a rule to handle mail conditional on
both the sender of e-mail and the person (if he or she is a different person)
on whose behalf the e-mail was sent?

In case it's relevant, I am using Outlook 2003 and all my e-mail comes in
from a POP3 server.

Thank you in advance for any help that somebody may be able to provide.

John