Combining different email addresses into 1 group in From view inInbox

[Wim Eising]

Several of my contacts use different email addresses when sending
emails (e.g. Business and Private addresses, and often randomly used).
However, when I search for emails from someone, I am usually not
interested in from what account they have sent their email, I am just
interested in from WHOM the emails are, not from WHAT ADDRESS. When I
search for emails from someone, I usually arrange the Inbox by From,
but this shows emails per ADDRESS, and thus separate emails from 1
person into different group headings.

How can I arrange my Inbox by Name (e.g. Full Name) and get all emails
from a person arrange in 1 group and sorted by date, irrespective of
the email address the emails where sent from?

Wim
Nairobi

 

[Brian Tillman]

Several of my contacts use different email addresses when sending
emails (e.g. Business and Private addresses, and often randomly used).
However, when I search for emails from someone, I am usually not
interested in from what account they have sent their email, I am just
interested in from WHOM the emails are, not from WHAT ADDRESS. When I
search for emails from someone, I usually arrange the Inbox by From,
but this shows emails per ADDRESS, and thus separate emails from 1
person into different group headings.

How can I arrange my Inbox by Name (e.g. Full Name) and get all emails
from a person arrange in 1 group and sorted by date, irrespective of
the email address the emails where sent from?

As far an an email client is concerned, messages are addresses, not people.
The From field is designed to contain the address that sent the message.

 

[Wim Eising]

Yes I understand, but what field should I use to arrange on name to
get all emails from/to one person (and his different email addresses)
into one group (so I can see all his emails, from all his email
addresses, together in on list sorted on date, since I often DO NOT
care from which email address he has sent the email I search for)
rather than spread over different groups per email address? There used
to be (in those good old days) an email reader, that good do this by
instructing it to combine emails from different addresses into 1
group, I worked with it and it worked nicely. But Outlook should be
able to do that easily as well. However, e.g. sorting (arranging) on
name doesn't do what I want it to do. Of course one could make (lots
of) rules to get a new name field to emails from different addresses
and then arrange on that new name field, but that is obviously quite
cumbersome....

Outlook is smart enough to do this for me, but tell me how. Must be a
hidden thing or so....
HELP!!!

Wim

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yes I understand, but what field should I use to arrange on name to
get all emails from/to one person (and his different email addresses)
into one group (so I can see all his emails, from all his email
addresses, together in on list sorted on date, since I often DO NOT
care from which email address he has sent the email I search for)

I don't believe that's possible, since it appears Outlook is using the
sender address and that varies.

Outlook is smart enough to do this for me, but tell me how.

And I don't believe it is.

 

[Wim Eising]

Brian, That means no solution here to my my problem/request? No way to
sort on email address name or full name or company or...... or.....
Wim

 

[Brian Tillman]

That means no solution here to my my problem/request? No way to
sort on email address name

I though that's what I said. How is a program to know who sent a message?
Frankly, how are YOU supposed to know, when addresses are so easily forged?
All Outlook has to go in is what's in the From field.

or full name or company

Since "company name" is not contained in a mail message, how would you
propose to group by it?

or...... or.....

Depends on what "or..... or....." means. Some things you can group by,
others you can't.