Post #46,762
7/24/02 5:49:57 PM
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MS Outlook -- does filtering require MS Exchange?
We're trying to document procedures for clients to use in setting up email filtering. I'm getting some questions WRT MS Outlook (we don't use it and are loath to set it up for fear of unholy business practices.
Thinking -- IIRC Outlook requires exchange for the "Inbox Assistant" component to work anyway. OE doesn't have this limitation.
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Post #46,767
7/24/02 6:00:38 PM
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Re: MS Outlook -- does filtering require MS Exchange?
Depends.
Basically if you want to just use regular client-side rules then no, an Exchange server is not necessary.
However if you want server-side rules to run, then yes, you need one.
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Post #46,768
7/24/02 6:00:41 PM
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"Rules Wizard"
Outlook has a Rules Wizard that will work with a POP3 Internet account as well as an Exchange client account. It filters my messages in Outlook XP/2002 with my POP3 accounts, I don't use an Exchange account for that. If you do have an Exchange account, the Rules are stored on an Exchange server and follow around your Exchange profile.
Not sure what "Inbox Assistant" is, maybe a Wizard, or an older version of the "Rules Wizard" for older Outlook versions?
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Post #46,804
7/25/02 3:17:29 AM
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Outlook 2002 "Rules Wizard" is flaky
More often than not the rules don't execute on startup. Somewhere in the MS KB is an article blaming it on the conversion process from Outlook Express rules to Outlook rules, but it still happens if you enter them from scratch. Opinion from deja-google is that there is some kind of timing problem on startup and that MS is aware of it. Of course they haven't fixed it.
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Post #46,811
7/25/02 9:56:22 AM
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Re: Outlook 2002 "Rules Wizard" is flaky
It works for me (hate to extrapolate from a case of 1, but will be moving all here to Office XP in the months to come) but the rules crash a lot if Outlook is left open
Still it deletes a few hundred messages each week
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Post #46,835
7/25/02 12:27:57 PM
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Outlook 2002 Rules Wizard
I had to fine tune them, I learned what the "Stop processing rules" did to get rid of duplicate messages when I moved them to a folder. If an email matched two rules, it would be copied to two different folders and I would have two copies of them!
I just wish that those female super models would stop sending me email linking to their naked pictures on the web. :) I'm a married man, you know.
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Post #47,072
7/26/02 3:45:15 PM
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Don't know about "rules wizard"
But I do know that one of the versions I've used in the past couple of years (probably Outloook 98 or Outlook 97) had such a flaky "junk email" feature that I stopped bothering to use it. When my junk senders list got to a certain size, it would start automatically junking (moving to the deleted folder) Email from some people it apparently thought was in the list but who actually weren't there at all.
Very annoying when it was Email from coworkers asking relatively important questions or sending fairly important information to me.
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Post #47,092
7/26/02 6:43:08 PM
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It is all in the settings
you can use an "Except" rule and say if the email came from certain people or a certain domain, to not move it to the junk file. If they used the "key words" your rule was looking for, then it would have been moved unless you used an "except" rule.
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Post #47,391
7/29/02 5:01:35 PM
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Never used "key words"
All I really used it for was either junk senders, or "from mailing list" rules. Did a decent job of sending local user group Email into a user group folder - but the oddities got to be too much.
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