Outlook 2003 Rules Wizard, Several Addresses

[Duran]

Hello,
I hope somebody can help me. I have a mailbox on Exchange 2003, which contains 5 addresses so it receives unsubscribe e-mails from 5 different companys.

I have set up 5 sub-folders in the inbox and I am trying to create a rule for each of the folders, so that if an unsubscribe comes from a particular company, say unsubscribecompanyname@mydomain.com, it goes into the companyname folder.

However, I dont seem to be able to work the rule so it recognises the differences in recipient address before the '@', so instead of going to the appropriate folder, it just sits in the inbox. Is there a clever way around this? I dont want to have to create a separate mailboxs and accounts for every address.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Kind regards,
D.

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[ForumKB]

I am assuming you don't mind having 5 seperate rules? If you set up the rules selecting the 'with specific word in the recipeints address' option and enter the text to filter does this not work?


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[Duran]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for getting back, I did try this option on one of the addresses, but it still just sat in the inbox, rather than getting moved to its respective folder.

Regards,
D.

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[ForumKB]

I have tried it also now I am at work an your right, doen't work, sorry. Will have a fiddle later to see if I can get it to do something interesting.


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[Duran]

Thanks Adrian, that's really good of you. I'm starting to think it might not be possible. But I hope I'm wrong.

Regards,
Paul.



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[smah]

That concept should work fine as long as you're filtering in the way that you think you are. Are you trying to catch the 'from' field or the 'to or cc' field? (I wasn't sure from the example).

Also- All mail rules are processed, in order, unless a 'stop processing' rule is encountered. Selection criteria for most rules is treated as a wildcard. Consider the scenario:[ol][li]color messages to ran red[/li][li]move messages to Duran to myfolder[/li][li]color messages with @ in the header green[/li][/ol]
messages to Durango@whatever.not would end up colored green in 'myfolder', while messages to transverse@whatever.not would end up in the inbox colored green and you'd never end up with a message that was colored red.

 

[Gavona]

One further reason the rules may not appear to work, though it is probably stating the obvious,
The rules will only apply to new messages. If you want to run them on messages already in your inbox then you have to: Tools, Rules and Alerts, RunRulesNow.

Gavin