Adding Contacts to Received E-Mails

[Louis James]

When I receive e-mails, I typically add the contact name to
that e-mail for later filing. I go to message options and
"add" the contact.

Does anyone know of an "automatic" way to do this? I have
tried rules but that does not seem to help. Outbound
e-mail is not a problem because I go to the contact in my
address book and start a new message from their. Outlook
2003 adds the contact name.

It's inbound that I have a problem with. Any suggestions
would be appreciated.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Not sure how to automate it, but you can right-click on the sender's name
and add to contacts that way....

 

[Louis James]

Basically, I'm doing that now. Mostly, I do this because
I store e-mails I receive from clients and others for
future searches or research. Originally, I just used the
e-mail address as the grouping but there were problems
with that. If Joe Citizen had more than one e-mail
address he/she used, then and had two or more different
groups.

The only way that I can find that will allow me to go to
a Contact in my address book and look at that person's
activity is to use the "Contact" field. That ties
everything together neatly under activities.

It works great for e-mails or any appointments, notes,
etc that I great as long as I start from the contact and
create the "whatever" for them.

It's the receiving of the e-mail that's a problem. The
rules are great except Outlook doesn't seem to be able to
match e-mail address to contact name.

Hopefully someone has a better idea or a solution.

Thanks for adding to the conversation.