d said:
Is there a way that I can tell if a sent message has been responded to? I
send multiple messages with similar title and I want to see who responded and
when
My trick to group together sent and received e-mails is to:
- Create a catch-all rule (at the end of the rules list) to save a copy
of new inbound e-mails into a user-created "Received Items" subfolder
under the "Sent Items" folder. If the e-mail survives the gauntlet of
my anti-spam and bad e-mail rules then the catch-all rule puts a copy of
the e-mail in the "Received Items" folder. That way, I can delete
e-mails from my Inbox rather than have to move them somewhere for later
review because they're already in the "Received Items" folder.
- Any whitelist rules you have at the top of your rules list would also
need to save a copy in the "Received Items" folder. I want whitelisted
e-mails and those that survive my gauntlet of other rules to have a copy
saved in "Received Items".
- When I want to check on a conversation, I just do a search starting at
the "Sent Items" folder and include, by default, all subfolders. Then I
group the results by Subject. This shows me the conversations that
include both sent and received e-mails (but does assume the Subject
wasn't changed other than adding "Re:" or other conversations used the
same Subject).
In summary, I save a copy of whitelisted e-mails into "Received Items".
If an e-mail survives my anti-spam and bad e-mail rules, a catch-all
rule saves a copy of the surviving e-mails into "Received Items". Later
I can search starting from "Sent Items" and group the results.
This is what I did under OL2002. You never mentioned WHICH version of
Outlook that *you* use. Different versions exist because there are
differences in behavior between them. Later versions of Outlook may
provide features that obviate my scheme for grouping conversations that
include both sent and received copies of e-mails in those conversations.
