Re: custom message rules in OE

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:36:17 -0800

Thanks a lot Mike!!

(Sorry I forgot to put platform, OS and OE version -PC WIN
XPPro OE6- I know it's important when asking for help)

I had missed the bit of the Options when trying to add
specific words to the rule, so everything set now :o)
Hopefully it should work fine.

Cheers,
Grace.

>-----Original Message-----
>Assuming that you have OE5 and above, it has a NOT
option. (OE4 message rules are more
>limited.)
>
>Some things to note about the Outlook Express version 5+
Message Rules:
> - Message Rules only work with POP3 server accounts.
(For Hotmail set the rules on the
>Hotmail web site.)
> - "Apply this rule after the message arrives" text is
not significant
> - The Actions "Delete from Server" and "Do Not Download"
can only test information in the
>message header (FROM, TO, CC, SUBJECT, message size). If
you test text in the message
>body or "has attachment", the message must be download
first for this test, negating the
>action. Also, these must be the first rules in your
list, or a preceding one may cause
>the message to download. (Warning: "Do Not Download"
should be a temporary rule. If you
>just leave messages on the server, eventually your server
mail account will fill and
>you'll not receive any new mail.)
> - The order of rules is significant. Rules are
processed in the order listed.
> - In most cases, you want to check the "Stop Processing"
action on a rule, otherwise a
>subsequent rule may override this one.
> - There is no wild card support (e.g. * or ?). However,
matching is done based on the
>specified string appearing anywhere in the field. The
matching is Not case sensitive.
> - To match on multiple terms (e.g. "blue" and "sky"
rather than the phrase "blue sky")
>you have to ADD the terms one at a time to the rule (i.e.
enter the first word, click the
>ADD button, then enter the second term, click the ADD
button, etc.)
> - For switching between NOT, AND/OR logic, click on the
OPTIONS button for the condition
> - Blocked Senders is equivalent to a message rule of
where FROM contains the name with an
>action of Move to Deleted Items folder and Stop
Processing. All Blocked Senders are
>applied before the other Message Rules.
> - After making any changes to the Message Rules or
Blocked Sender list, you must use the
>OK button to close the main dialog that shows the list of
message rules or blocked
>senders. If you use the Cancel button or the X to close
that dialog, the changes you just
>made are thrown away.
> - For some Outlook Express Message Rules tips, see:
> - http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm
> - http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
>
>
>
>
>--
>
>Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
>
>
>"Grace" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:087001c3faf3$4fe1a250$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is any way of customising the
email
>> messages rules in Outlook Express.
>> For example, I receive messages from a group that covers
>> all the languages (names of languages are generally in
the
>> subject or body), but I'm only interested in one or two
>> languages. So I would like it to delete all the messages
>> that DO NOT contain a specific word (i.e. delete all the
>> messages that contain ALL the languages I'm not
interested
>> in, which would be a bit tedious to set).
>>
>> Is there any way of doing this?
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Grace.
>>
>
>
>.
>

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