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

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:44:26 -0700

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You may wish to explain yourself better in the future the
post in the other group did not answer the question.

>-----Original Message-----
>Answered in the outlook.general newsgroup. Do NOT
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>"curt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>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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