Microsoft Outlook - Rules & Alerts

Grumpy_Old_Duffer

Use MO 2003 at work and have a Rules & Alerts set-up. The problem I have is with external email accounts, particularly those automated response ones. It's like 'Tennis' email in that when I get an external automated response, my account sends one back, and theirs sends another back to me, and my account sends one back etc. etc. etc.

What I want to do is set my Rules and Alerts so that it only responds to 'internal' emails, so how do I set R & A so that they only respond to emails that have, say, @mse.co.uk in the address of the received email?

AHAR

Hi,
I'm not certain if you've got multiple e-mail accounts set up in Outlook and you only want your rules to be performed on one of them or if you only want them to apply to messages received from senders in a particular domain.
For the former, enabling the "through the specified account" condition sounds like it'll do the job and for the latter the "with specific words in the sender's address" condition should do the trick.

N.B. I'm basing this response on what's available in Outlook 2007. Sorry if 2003 doesn't have these.

scheming_gypsy

If you create a blank rule rather than one of the preset ones, you should have the option of: 'sender is in a specified address book'. You should / might be able to set that as your global address list which will only activate for internal mails.