Message Rules

[Mike Klaiber]

I have just moved from OE to Outlook as my mail client.

I wish to set up a message rule to prevent download of mail for another
family member, and vice versa. We have different e-mail addresses, but use
the same username / ISP account. This was relatively straightforward in OE,
but despite using the message rules wizard and reading the help pages, I
cannot find any way of doing this in Outlook.

Can anyone assist please ?

Regards.
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[Brian Tillman]

I wish to set up a message rule to prevent download of mail for
another family member, and vice versa. We have different e-mail
addresses, but use the same username / ISP account. This was
relatively straightforward in OE, but despite using the message rules
wizard and reading the help pages, I cannot find any way of doing
this in Outlook.

If the two addresses are actually aliases for the same mailbox on the ISP
side, the best you can do is to use rules to move the messages to different
folders based on the receiving address. There is no way to selectively
download messages with Outlook.

 

[Mike Klaiber]

Thanks Brian.

That's very disappointing. I thought Outlook was supposed to be a more
powerful and versatile program, than OE.

Regards.
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| > I wish to set up a message rule to prevent download of mail for
| > another family member, and vice versa. We have different e-mail
| > addresses, but use the same username / ISP account. This was
| > relatively straightforward in OE, but despite using the message rules
| > wizard and reading the help pages, I cannot find any way of doing
| > this in Outlook.
|
| If the two addresses are actually aliases for the same mailbox on the ISP
| side, the best you can do is to use rules to move the messages to
different
| folders based on the receiving address. There is no way to selectively
| download messages with Outlook.
| --
| Brian Tillman
|

 

[Brian Tillman]

That's very disappointing. I thought Outlook was supposed to be a more
powerful and versatile program, than OE.

It is, but obviously not in every single detail. The writers of Outlook and
the writers of Outlook Express had a slightly different connection model in
mind when they designed their respective products.