Outlook Express

Maggiemoo_2

Hi there,

I have just started using outlook Express instead of outlook for my emails. I was wondering how I can group my email messages from sender so that any new ones come in under a persons name rather than just by date. I know this can be done in Outlook but can't seem to do it in Express.

I am sure this is really simple?!?!

cledor

click on the "from" column, it would then display emails alphabetically by sender.

Maggiemoo_2

I have done that but I actually want all the emails from each person in a folder which can be expanded when a new email comes in. So instead of looking at all the emails I just have a heading with their name unless I expand it?

Does that make sense?!?!

espresso

Message, Create Rule from message.

Maggiemoo_2

Thanks for that, but it is still not what I want to do. I just want to store all the emails that I receive under each persons name and when I get another email it shows as highlighted and I then expand the folder to bring up the new email as well as all other emails from that person or company.

I am probably not explaining myself very well but I can't think of any other way to explain it. I know it is something really simple with Outlook, just can't seem to find out how to do it with Express!

espresso

Outlook Express is a free cut down version, so use Outlook if it does what you require!

Maggiemoo_2

I did not realise that. At the moment I do not have Microsoft Office loaded so can only use EXPRESS. Will i be able to transfer all the emails to Outlook when I finally manage to get it?

Jzpop

I am pretty sure that, as Espresso said, you need to set up rules within OE so that as an email arrives from Joe Bloggs, it is automatically moved to a folder called 'mail from Joe Bloggs' (or whatever you want to call that folder).

In this case, after a send/receive, the 'mail from Joe Bloggs' folder will have a number in bold type after it, indicating the number of unread messages within it - i.e. you have new mail from Joe Bloggs.

Have a look at the link below and tell us if / why it is not what you are after - http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/email/general/853/

Jzpop

Maggiemoo wrote: »

I did not realise that. At the moment I do not have Microsoft Office loaded so can only use EXPRESS. Will i be able to transfer all the emails to Outlook when I finally manage to get it?

If you have been using OE, as part of the installation routine for Outlook, you will be prompted to ask whether you want to import your emails / contacts etc from OE.

Note that you will also need to setup rules from within Outlook if you want to have a separate folder for each mail recipient, with their emails automatically forwarded to the appropriate folder.