Quick Rule Creation in Outlook 2010

Hello, Tanks for the advice and it is a good implementation. However, I have to complain a little bit about rules, as the managment is oooold. I use lists in my contact folder for various reasons. It makes often sense to directly apply a rule to these lists. However, there is only a work around availible to do so and if I add a new member to a list I also have to add the member manually to the rule. It would be nice, if a rule would be linked to a list (and/or category). The way you describe above works, but please see that I cannot stand the mess of x-hundret rules without real options to sort and filter them in the manage box. What if I want to delete or change it? Finding this particular rule is anything but easy. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Georg

i have very high expectation with outlook 2010. and i am very disappointed. i tried this out and it took more than 2 hours for outlook to update my emails with the categories i have set via the rules. i tried to do this manually -meaning i set the category of an email by selecting the Quick Click Category. it took ages for the outlook to make the update. in gmail, you can do this in a jiffy. dont tell me that my system is underpowered. im using an Acer 4820TG with 4GB ram. my OS is win 7-64bit. our office email is an imap based system.

Hi

Outlook 2010 looks great.

I'm a fan of the quickparts and the rules. Only it seems that there's a limitation on the number of rules. Is my interpretation correct and if so can you suggest a work around? Thank you, RafC

My beef with Rules is that each rule applies to only one inbox. In this era of multiple email addresses arriving in Outlook 2010, the rules should be able to apply globally to all, as well as an option to select from among the accounts. I was very dissappointed to see in the Beta version Rules are still arcane and clumsy

hi all, I can create rule for only one contact. Could anyone guide me how to create rule for more than one contact ?

Hi Sujay, To create a rule for mail from multiple contacts in Outlook 2010, on the ribbon go to "Rules," then click "Manage Rules and Alerts" and create a new rule there. This gives you access to all of the advanced rule options. Josh Meisels

Outlook Program Manager

I am actually still using '03 so forgive me if this has already been addressed, but it doesn't look like it from these comments. I don't understand EJ Travis' comment as I have numerous accounts and rules apply to all. It is Search Folers like Unread Mail that won't apply to different PST files.

What I see as an obvious blunder in rules is two-fold dealing with sorting and spam:

1) Spam filters will never work. Not Possible. I use Outlook's filter set to safelist only. There are however legitimate newsletters which use a dynamic Return Path which keeps getting hung in Outlook's filter. This ties to rules (or would be nullified by):

2) Why is the Junk Mail Filter even applied if your rule is met? I use complex rules based entirely on header contents. As you know I can choose to bail when a rule is met or continue processing. This functionality would work great with the filter. If an email meets the criteria specified it IS NOT SPAM. If this is not true then you simply need to make better rules. So why not apply the filter after all rules have failed? It could even be optional much like the "stop processing more rules" checkbox?

Hello there, I am trying to create a rule for mail lists. I use distro or majordomo type lists that my clients send to normally the FROM is the client sending to say "Support@domain.com" the request gets distributed and all is well. I just moved to Outlook 2010 today and when the email comes in Outlook believes it is from the support@domain.com instead the client's email address at client@clientdomain.com. Is there a setting to turn this off? The rules don't work since they don't see the originating email address. Frankly the Outlook Express rule creation was much simpler and more flexible but outside of that I really like the integration of all of the Outlook components into the mail view. Dashbord like views are great! Thanks!

Chris

How to manage these quick rule graymail

Its very useful to me and thanks for the clear instruction and i really appreciate it

Outlook send and receive messages often used before, since out of office 2010, I have chosen the Microsoft Outlook 2010. But the time had an accident some time ago – hard drive damage, and this led to my account on Outlook 2010, contacts, personal signatures and other information are lost. E-mail the contents of PST files backed up by previous restore a part of

I love Office, but...it is counter intuitive that you eliminated the old ease of formatting colour by sender in favour of the complicated condition formatting. Apple likes to say 'it just works' and that is what you must bring to Office... the old means of changing, and a new overall management screen for multiple documents that allows you to work off of a topsites/foxtabs sort of open document interface.

I wanted to share a rule I use to move Bulk Mail to a separate folder.  I created a folder called Bulk Items.  Then I set a rule to move items there when the body of the message contains the work "unsubscribe".  Nearly all bulk mail will have instructions on how to unsubscribe within the email body.  Now mail from mailing lists is separated from my normal inbox!

I would like to create a rule that moves an email based on what is in the subject. But I would like to use an "and" condition and it seems Outlook only has the option of an "or" condition. (The subjects of the emails have multiple sections and I need to put in the rule 2 of the pieces ie if the subject has "The Times" and "Daily" in it. There may be other words in the subject that the rule can ignore. Is this at all possible?

Hi, How can I select all rules? for example, if i want to go home and de-select all rules, should I need to go one by one? I have 176 rules, which is very hard to go through. I know that in the command "run rules now" you can select all, but how can i do it with the rules itself? Thanks