I just need a count. How many email received (in this folder) yesterday, the
day before, the day before that. So far the only method I've found is to
sort the folder by date received, then move them one day at a time to a 2nd
folder. This is not a very high tech way to get a count but it might be the
best I can do.
We have just converted this email box from GroupWise to Outlook 2003.
GroupWise could easily filter by day (using a -1, -2, -3 etc. to determine
days before today, and gave us a count. Outlook only lets me filter by
yesterday, but even this still shows the total number of emails in the
folder, not the filtered number.
Different programs have different features. That is always to be
expected. I'm sure there are functions in Outlook that have no
counterpart in Groupwise.
You're stuck using Outlook because someone decided you had to move away
from Groupwise. So, you're stuck waiting for someone in your IT group
or your mail admin to come up with a VBA macro that can be installed as
an add-on to Outlook to provide functionality that is wanted in Outlook
but not there. They might find help at
www.outlook-code.com. Someone
might come up with a custom view that you could select that uses SQL
directives which can specify age by days when selecting records from the
message store database, but the status bar's count would reflect how
many are viewed (it shows the total count).
Although you could save searches, I don't think even the Advanced Find
(under advanced tab) to find Received items would help. It doesn't let
you search based on age by days but only based on dates. The SQL tab
doesn't show up until you are defining a custom view and selecting the
filter criteria.
Advanced Folders Watch add-on from MapiLab might filter how you want to
give you the data you want. I can't tell from their product page if
they have a filter based on days age. It is a free add-on so you could
check it out. If it didn't do what you want, you didn't pay anything
for it so you just lost your time to investigate the product.
