Rule to change mail recipient?

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Andy Linton

Hi,

I sometimes use my laptop and/or home PC to send mail from my business account.
However of course this mail doesn't appear in the SENT items in my office Outlook. I can cc it to my office, but then it appears from ME to ME!

I'd like to create a rule that will:

1. Filter any mail that comes in from me to a particular folder;
2. Change the recipient from ME to the person who was the original recipient.

Is this possible please?

I'm guessing a custom action?

Thanks

Andy.
 
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Roady [MVP]

No, but why not simply create a rule to move it to your Sent Items folder?
It will then be in the correct place and shows the correct "To" information.

I find it strange that your company allow for such a decentralized
configuration. Company mails are bound to get lost this way. You are not
using Exchange or another server-side mail storage system?
 
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Andy Linton

If I simply do that, it makes it difficult to search for mails, as they will all show To: me and From: me.

As I'm a director of the company, I allow myself to do it! No-one else (excpet my co-director) will do this.

Thanks

Andy.
 
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Roady [MVP]

No, it will be sent From yourself, To recipient, CC to yourself. Since the
Sent Items folder displays the To field, it will show up correctly. It will
still show you in the CC and From field as well.
 
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VanguardLH

Andy Linton" in said:
I sometimes use my laptop and/or home PC to send mail from my business acc
However of course this mail doesn't appear in the SENT items in my office
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I'd like to create a rule that will:

1. Filter any mail that comes in from me to a particular folder;
2. Change the recipient from ME to the person who was the original recipient.
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Alas, another FUDforum user posting overly long physical lines. Maybe
FUDforum will someday fix their forum-to-Usenet gateway.
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long lines that are hundreds of characters long. Newsgroups posts
should physically line-wrap at 76 characters, or less. They must also
be under 998 characters in maximum length to be RFC compliant. Ask your
FUDforum admin or moderator to be polite when gatewaying their posts to
Usenet by reformatting their posts before dumping them in newsgroups.
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You might want to look into switching from a POP account to an IMAP
account. POP is not designed for access from multiple endpoints. IMAP
is. For the difference between their behaviors, read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office_protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap

Whether or not you can switch from POP to IMAP depends on whomever you
use as your e-mail provider.
 
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