Rules to Grade a Quiz

[Guest]

I want to set up rule that would look at the incoming e-
mail and do one of two things:

1. if the e-mail contains all the correct answers to a
quiz (I can instruct the quiz takers to construct the e-
mail so it will be worded correctly), e-mail the quiz
taker with a Success message.

2. if the e-mail does not contain the correct answers
(whether they are wrong or not typed properly), e-mail
the quiz taker a Failure message.

I thought I could create these in the Rules wizard, but I
am either overlooking something or the feature is not
present.

Can this be done? If so, can you provide me some
guidance on how to construct the rule?

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

I want to set up rule that would look at the incoming e- mail and do
one of two things:

1. if the e-mail contains all the correct answers to a quiz (I can
instruct the quiz takers to construct the e- mail so it will be worded
correctly), e-mail the quiz taker with a Success message.

2. if the e-mail does not contain the correct answers (whether they are
wrong or not typed properly), e-mail the quiz taker a Failure message.

I thought I could create these in the Rules wizard, but I am either
overlooking something or the feature is not present.

Can this be done? If so, can you provide me some guidance on how to
construct the rule?

Well...you could sort of do tht with Outlook 2003, though it would be
fairly imprecise, I think. The success message is the easier of the two
rules - one that looks in the message body for correct answers and replies
with a specified template. The problem is the failure message - the wrong
answers could be almost anything. I suppose you could list the Success
message first and conclude it with "Stop Processing More Rules" then list
the Failure message and just have it look for the Quiz title or something
that all of them will have. Anybody who doesn't get a success message
will get a failure message.
Sounds a little kludgy to me, tho, and I wouldn't vouch for its reliability.