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Joseph M. Newcomer
Because Microsoft designed the "create rules" for children who never have more than 20
rules, the interface is one of the worst I've ever seen. I have a large number of rules
to manage (thousands) and the current interface is unusable. I thought I might try to
create an automation interface that would help me manage my rules, but I cannot find
anything about "rules" collections; searching the VB help for "rules" or "rule" produces
nothing useful.
Is there some strange place these are documented, such as being considered part of some
kind of collection that isn't called "rules"? I want to be able to extract all my rules,
search them, edit them, sort them, and in general manage them with a USABLE interface, but
I can't do this if I can't find out how they are stored, or what the automation interfaces
are into them.
I would also like to create an add-in that implemented regular expression rules that would
delete mail, and I cannot discover anything about how to do this, either. For example,
any email of the form
"Earn [$£][0-9]+"
would help me kill off those emails that keep promising weird numbers of dollars per day.
The Microosoft anti-spam filters are useless, because they don't seem to filter out most
of the crap I get so I have to create and manage my own.
Any suggestions?
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm
rules, the interface is one of the worst I've ever seen. I have a large number of rules
to manage (thousands) and the current interface is unusable. I thought I might try to
create an automation interface that would help me manage my rules, but I cannot find
anything about "rules" collections; searching the VB help for "rules" or "rule" produces
nothing useful.
Is there some strange place these are documented, such as being considered part of some
kind of collection that isn't called "rules"? I want to be able to extract all my rules,
search them, edit them, sort them, and in general manage them with a USABLE interface, but
I can't do this if I can't find out how they are stored, or what the automation interfaces
are into them.
I would also like to create an add-in that implemented regular expression rules that would
delete mail, and I cannot discover anything about how to do this, either. For example,
any email of the form
"Earn [$£][0-9]+"
would help me kill off those emails that keep promising weird numbers of dollars per day.
The Microosoft anti-spam filters are useless, because they don't seem to filter out most
of the crap I get so I have to create and manage my own.
Any suggestions?
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm