Posted: Tue Feb 01, 05 10:02 am Post subject: Can you help with filters and rules in Outlook
Hope this explanation works...
I have to check bounced emails from mailing lists - these come in blocks of a couple of hundred about 30-40 times a day, with the occasional bigger bundle when we send out a newsletter or something.
A lot of these emails are duplicates as the same people get the same updates so I want to be able to search emails bouncing back from, let's say [email protected] or with "Bugs Somebody" in the body of the email. But Outlooks filters are deeply rubbish and neither the search nor the filters seems to work on that kind of search.
Does this make sense and does anyone know a way round it...can't find anything on the internet but I think that's because I can't explain the problem clearly enough...
Last edited by Bugs on Tue Feb 01, 05 10:15 am; edited 1 time in total
Is there any way you can change to Thunderbird? Filters is the main reason i changed from Outllok Express to Thunderbird. The full version of Outlook is more feature rich than TB though..
Nah, not at work . I shall hopefully be able to install it on my home PC though, and as that's because I'll be allowed to work from home I suppose I could save up this kind of work for my days at home.
I really don't like Outlook. I don't have strong opinions about software, but it just breaks *all* *the* *time* aaaaarrrrrggghghghgh.
Northern_Lad
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 05 10:17 am Post subject:
You may have tried this already, but...
Go to Tools
Click on Rules Wizard
(Kill the paperclip)
'Check messages when they arrive'
'With specific words in the body' - you'll have to specify the text
Then slect what you want to do with the message - delete it, move it...
I've just changed the title because I've tried both the filter option and the rules option. For reasons that are not clear to me, it simply doesn't display all the messages that the rule should apply to.
Eg I may have forty "over quota" emails in among 2240 emails - there's no clue in the sender name or the subject as to who the email is from, or the reason for the non-delivery. But either a rule or a filter with "over quota" in message body seems to only pick out a couple of messages.
Can I say aaarraghghghgh again or would that be over-dramatic?
. I shall hopefully be able to install it on my home PC though, and as that's because I'll be allowed to work from home I suppose I could save up this kind of work for my days at home.
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