Using Contact's Categories to set message categories

21 Nov 2007 6:06 AM

JSp

Is there any way to have a rule that sets an incoming message category to the
categor(ies) that the sender of the message is assign to in my contacts list?

In other words, I have 'George Washington' in my contacts list. George has a
category of 'prez' assigned to him. When I get a message from George, I'd
like that message to be assigned the category of 'prez' as well.

I know I can manually setup a rule to do this for specific contacts, but it
would be so much more useful to manage the rule's behavior by setting
categories in the contact list.

21 Nov 2007 6:31 AM

Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook)

No. Here's as close as I can get you to that requirement:

Use folders to separate types of Contacts and then in Rules you can say if
the Sender is in a certain Address book (meaning Contacts Folder), then ...
do what you want.

BTW I hate suggesting folders rather than Categories but what you asked for
is best done by folder 'cause Rules don't recognise the Category of the
Sender.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia

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"JSp" <J**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to have a rule that sets an incoming message category to
> the
> categor(ies) that the sender of the message is assign to in my contacts
> list?
>
> In other words, I have 'George Washington' in my contacts list. George has
> a
> category of 'prez' assigned to him. When I get a message from George, I'd
> like that message to be assigned the category of 'prez' as well.
>
> I know I can manually setup a rule to do this for specific contacts, but
> it
> would be so much more useful to manage the rule's behavior by setting
> categories in the contact list.