Re: Can Categories be used with rules to sort to folders?

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From: Roady [MVP] (newsgroups_DELETE__at__DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:28:29 +0200

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"curt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:12e0c01c44362$ef773700$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I am involved in politics and business and I need to sort
> through hundreds of email messages.  Distribution lists
> have proven impractical because it's too hard to add
> dozens upon dozen of addresses.  The Category option is
> avialable directly from the message when you click the
> icon next to the address in OL 2003.
>
> However unlike other rules based on individual addresses
> when I use category based rules to sort messages to
> folders it does nothing.  It doesn't move the messages or
> anything else.  Frankly the other options in OL are
> getting quite tedious and unweildy because it's just not
> practical to have hundreds of email rules all for
> individual volunteers and business partners running as
> these messages are coming. Among other things it's causing
> my email server to time out at times.
>
> Any suggestions or observations as to why "category" is
> even in the rules wizard if it is a unusuable option in
> terms of sorting?  I'm unclear what purpose it serves
> outside of organizing the address book because it doesn't
> seem to serve any purpose in the rules area.

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