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Does anyone know of a way to assign categories to email messages in Outlook
2003 based on the folder into which they are filed upon receipt?
Here is the situation. I receive a large quantity of email each day
(800-1000 items). About half is caught by Outlook's junk email filter and
placed in the Junk folder. The other half is sorted into subfolders based
upon rules that I have set up (about 48 rules). I am pretty good about
deleting messages and then archiving the deleted items so that my mailbox
doesn't get too big.
The problem comes when I try to search through deleted messages. I would
like to know what folder the message was in prior to deletion to make
searching easier. The only way I can think of to do this is to assign a
category to a message based on its folder. But I can't figure out how to get
Outlook to do this.
The closest I came to a functional solution was to re-create each of my
sorting rules, but substitute the "assign category" operation instead of the
"move to folder" operation. But aside from being inartful, this doesn't work
for 2 reasons. First, doubling the number of rules leads to errors from
Outlook that I have exceeded the number of rules allowed. Second, this
doesn't work for Junk mail, since there is no user-accessible rule that moves
items to Junk.
I am running Outlook 2003 SP2 in cached mode on a WinXP SP2 machine and
Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition (Version 6.5, Build 7638.2 SP2).
Does anyone know of a way to have Oulook assign categories based on folders,
or have another idea for how I can accomplish my goal? Thanks for the help.
2003 based on the folder into which they are filed upon receipt?
Here is the situation. I receive a large quantity of email each day
(800-1000 items). About half is caught by Outlook's junk email filter and
placed in the Junk folder. The other half is sorted into subfolders based
upon rules that I have set up (about 48 rules). I am pretty good about
deleting messages and then archiving the deleted items so that my mailbox
doesn't get too big.
The problem comes when I try to search through deleted messages. I would
like to know what folder the message was in prior to deletion to make
searching easier. The only way I can think of to do this is to assign a
category to a message based on its folder. But I can't figure out how to get
Outlook to do this.
The closest I came to a functional solution was to re-create each of my
sorting rules, but substitute the "assign category" operation instead of the
"move to folder" operation. But aside from being inartful, this doesn't work
for 2 reasons. First, doubling the number of rules leads to errors from
Outlook that I have exceeded the number of rules allowed. Second, this
doesn't work for Junk mail, since there is no user-accessible rule that moves
items to Junk.
I am running Outlook 2003 SP2 in cached mode on a WinXP SP2 machine and
Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition (Version 6.5, Build 7638.2 SP2).
Does anyone know of a way to have Oulook assign categories based on folders,
or have another idea for how I can accomplish my goal? Thanks for the help.
