Why the antiquated RULES process still?

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I was hoping, praying, (and obviously dreaming) that with Office 08
Entourage would bring update and make more modern the entire process
of creating rules. But nothing's changed there.

In Thunderbird, once you've received an email from someone you can
simply click on their email address and make a "Filter" (rule) for
that person on the spot.

Why isn't Entourage able to do something so easy?
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Re: Why the antiquated RULES process still? by Adam

Adam
Fri Feb 08 20:50:03 CST 2008

zenzam <zenzam@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Thunderbird, once you've received an email from someone you can
> simply click on their email address and make a "Filter" (rule) for
> that person on the spot.
>
> Why isn't Entourage able to do something so easy?

Because I suspect not very many people have suggested this to Microsoft. You
have, right?

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Re: Why the antiquated RULES process still? by Diane

Diane
Fri Feb 08 23:29:44 CST 2008

On 2/8/08 2:16 PM, in article
5f9686e3-7e5d-4756-afb3-574d93dca056@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "zenzam"
<zenzam@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was hoping, praying, (and obviously dreaming) that with Office 08
> Entourage would bring update and make more modern the entire process
> of creating rules. But nothing's changed there.
>
> In Thunderbird, once you've received an email from someone you can
> simply click on their email address and make a "Filter" (rule) for
> that person on the spot.
>
> Why isn't Entourage able to do something so easy?

In a way it does. If you have the message open, when you select to create a
new Mailing List Manager rule or a custom rule Entourage will automatically
fill in the correct info from that message. Not as simple as Thunderbird,
but better than having to type it out or paste.

I also suggest using categories instead of actual email addresses whenever
possible. For example, if your friend Bob had one address but then sent you
a new additional address if you had used a rule with his email address you
would have had to open the address and add his new one. But if you had
assigned a category to Bob as Friends, created a rule for friends category
then all you would have to do is use the shortcut "Add to Address Book".

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule002.html>


Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>


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