rules

So after a bit of research I've come to the conclusion that Outlook has a sort of built-in protection that prevents automatically forwarding mails that come with a "FW:" or "RE:" in the title. Probably to prevent mail storms or something. Is there a way to disable this security feature? I...

Hi, I am setting up rules for the first time for my Fastmail IMAP account in Outlook 365 For every rule I have set up: From is: XXX@XXX.COM MOVE TO: XXX Stop Processing filters But, every time I edit my filters I get a warning message saying " This rule has a condition that the server...

[BTW -- I'm sure it is already known that Office 2021 is not an option in the account sign-up, so I lied and picked 2019] Is there any way to have an Outlook 2021 rule run a script? I've found many examples of doing this, but it appears that the ability to have rules activate scripts was...

Hi all. I am looking for an idea/direction on how to correct a bug in my Outlook rule operation. The rule operation is intermittent … but usually fails nowadays. The rule has been running reliably for years. I run a rule after messages arrive, that checks the subject, and if it matches, the...

tl;dr In case I get a second email in a conversation from the same person before I replied, I would like to color it pink and make the font bigger so I know I need to reply to it. Any recommendation on how to do it? Background We have a bad email culture at work, everyone CCs managers, sends...

I have created 50+ folders and rules for incoming emails. I have a search for all unread emails. Does outlook have a shortcut so you can go to the folder of the email in your search? Let me reword this. My search I have an email and it's in a folder called "Dog". Can use shortcut Ctrl+??? and I...

The Outlook rules wizard allows you to set an exception condition in a rule "Except if it is an automatic reply". Can anyone tell me what text, subject, category etc will trigger a message as an automatic reply. Is it just an outlook Out of Office Reply header or is there something more...

I have a lot of rules to create a copy of emails I send in a folder dedicated to the recipient. For example, I might have a rule that puts a copy of every email sent to julie@example.com in "julie's folder." My primary email account where I send and receive is gmail, but my store of folders for...

I'm wondering if you might know why Outlook 2016 upon startup will very occasionally these days (once or twice a month, with C2R builds over the last several months) balk about a rules issue. It invariably turns out to be that it no longer knows where local mail folders are in a set of local...

Environment is Office 365/Outlook 2016: My client has recently noticed that when they go to manually move multiple emails from their Outlook inbox to a "project specific" Public Folder it hangs Outlook until the move process is completed. The more emails they select to move, the longer the user...

I had to reinstall Outlook 2016 and my rules that flag messages stopped working. I had the same problem when I first installed Outlook and asked this question on this forum. I discovered a solution myself at that time: do a scan and fix of the pst file. But this time this does not work. Well...

Hello All, First a bit shout out for Diane Poremsky, who's assisted me extensively to get me to this point. A bit of background, just so you have it. I have a visually-impaired client who does freelance medical translation work where job offers come to him, and a variety of other...

Dear Outlook Experts, Is it possible to access and asses the content of a User Defined Field when creating/editing an Outlook Rule? I have a third party integration that creates many email items, placing them into a dedicated inbox. The external system populates certain useful data into User...

Hi, I recently started using Outlook 2016. (I had been using 2003 up till now). I want every message that comes in to be flagged for follow up. I created rules that flags messages from each of my accounts to be flagged. Now the weirdest thing is that it works sometimes, and not at other times...

Hello everyone, I am trying to change some rules in outlook, as I have more than 300 rules and would like to change the routing for a given email to a group depending on the name of the rule. I tried to make an adaptation in the code of the list of rules and Sort Rules, but still I could not...

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I would like to split the main PST file in Outlook 2016, as it is 7 GB in size. If I split it into 2 PST files (let's call them outlook.pst and vb.pst) and have both loaded in Outlook, will the existing rules still function and place emails in their corresponding folders? Or, must I set up new...

I built a new rule in Outlook.Com to place email in a folder if certain conditions were met. I'm running a Microsoft Exchange account. I see that Outlook.com migrates the rule to Outlook 2016 desktop. The rule isn't working when mail arrives either at the server or desktop; however, I can go...

Diane Poremsky submitted a new article on Slipstick.com Mark Sent Items as Read After Copying with a Rule Continue reading the Original Article at Slipstick.com