How to *quickly* add addresses to Group or DL? 1

[jsteph]

Hi all,
In outlook (2003) I'm trying to create a group, and I would love a way to quickly add address directly from emails in my InBox to this group. The only way I see now is about 20 clicks--open address book, find group, click add...then open the email, dbl-click on the From address, copy the address (makeing sure to not copy the brackets or display name), then paste, blah, blah.

This is so tedious. I'd like to just have an icon for the group somewhere and when a message is in the inbox, just drag that message to the group icon, and have that default drag-drop method be "add the From address to this Group".

This is to create a group of the spam senders---there are a few dozen who seem to be regular senders, and my ISP can't block them and I really don't want third-party anti-spam because I really just want to explicitly block these particular addresses. This group will then be part of a Rule--which is another issue because Rules will not (!!!???) accept groups, but at least when I add the group to the Rule outlook is semi merciful and asks if I want to add all members of the group to the Rule, which will have to work for now.

Thanks for any help,
--Jim

Further,

 

[58sniper]

Why not just right click on them and add them to the blocked senders list?

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[jsteph]

58sniper,
The option you speak of appears (so far) to only give me the option of turning the color of those messages to grey. What I really need is for them to be immediately shuffled to a folder I created for junk mail.

I haven't confirmed that, but when I tried what you suggested, the feature wasn't turned on, when I went to Tools/Organizize, it only gave the option of turning the color of the message. It did have the option of creating an individual rule for only the selected messages, but that requires me to go through the menu for every new junk message that comes up, instead of right-clicking.

If I could right-click just once (even twice would suffice, which is what it seems like is the case for Junk Email-->Add Sender to Blocked List) and have that address added to some rule that will add it to the junk-rule which moves them to another folder, that would be ideal, but as I said it seems like that will only turn the message grey. If it will indeed block it or move it, let me know,
--Jim

 

[TFoss]

For the first part: when the email is open, just right-click on the name and add this person to Outlook Contacts. Then open your Contact folder where you created the DL, and add your new contact as a new member.

 

[58sniper]

When you add them to the blocked senders list, any future messages from that address should go directly to your built in Junkmail folder. That's by design.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[jsteph]

58Sniper,
Ok...my mistake. I have Outlook 2002 and not 2003 as I'd thought. It looks like they added the junk folder for 2003. I had just made a junk folder and was trying to get this rule to send it all there. Sorry about the mistake...your solution should work for 2003, and I'm just going to upgrade because my ISP's junk filter is not doing it.
--Jim