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Rojo26
When I create a rule by right-clicking a message inOutlook 2003, the dialog
box shows the display name. But the rule is set up based on the e-mail
address, not the display name. I've been inundated with junk mail from Wall
Street News Alert, but every message comes from a different domain. So it
took me months of creating new rules for the hundreds of messages I got to
figure out how to set the rule for "With Specific Words in the Sender's
Address." And I'm an A+ tech and an MCP! If the dialog box hadn't misled me
into thinking that the rule was supposed to permanently delete the display
name when it actually blocked the e-mail address, I would have been spared
that annoyance. For the sake of user-friendliness, I suggest the following
changes to the Create Rule dialog box:
The first page of that dialog box should show the e-mail address and the
display name, and give the user the choice of making the rule act on the
e-mail address, display name, or e-mail domain.
I'm also having trouble getting my rules to work consistently. For example,
the wallstreetnewsalert rule that actually works, although it is turned on,
doesn't do anything unless I run it manually. Other rules work sometimes and
don't work at other times. If the rules were more reliable, I would have
assumed that the problems I was having with the Wall Street News Alert were
due to user error. But because they are so unreliable, I simply blamed that
problem on Outlook.
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box shows the display name. But the rule is set up based on the e-mail
address, not the display name. I've been inundated with junk mail from Wall
Street News Alert, but every message comes from a different domain. So it
took me months of creating new rules for the hundreds of messages I got to
figure out how to set the rule for "With Specific Words in the Sender's
Address." And I'm an A+ tech and an MCP! If the dialog box hadn't misled me
into thinking that the rule was supposed to permanently delete the display
name when it actually blocked the e-mail address, I would have been spared
that annoyance. For the sake of user-friendliness, I suggest the following
changes to the Create Rule dialog box:
The first page of that dialog box should show the e-mail address and the
display name, and give the user the choice of making the rule act on the
e-mail address, display name, or e-mail domain.
I'm also having trouble getting my rules to work consistently. For example,
the wallstreetnewsalert rule that actually works, although it is turned on,
doesn't do anything unless I run it manually. Other rules work sometimes and
don't work at other times. If the rules were more reliable, I would have
assumed that the problems I was having with the Wall Street News Alert were
due to user error. But because they are so unreliable, I simply blamed that
problem on Outlook.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...d3d855572&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general