Hi

I am involved in politics and business and I need to sort
through hundreds of email messages. Distribution lists
have proven impractical because it's too hard to add
dozens upon dozen of addresses. The Category option is
avialable directly from the message when you click the
icon next to the address in OL 2003.

However unlike other rules based on individual addresses
when I use category based rules to sort messages to
folders it does nothing. It doesn't move the messages or
anything else. Frankly the other options in OL are
getting quite tedious and unweildy because it's just not
practical to have hundreds of email rules all for
individual volunteers and business partners running as
these messages are coming. Among other things it's causing
my email server to time out at times.

Any suggestions or observations as to why "category" is
even in the rules wizard if it is a unusuable option in
terms of sorting? I'm unclear what purpose it serves
outside of organizing the address book because it doesn't
seem to serve any purpose in the rules area.

Allow me to post an update regarding distlists they are
usable in the rules area either except as a gathering area
for names.

I see no real practicle way to sort mail in OL 2003 at
this point aside from having hundreds of individual rules
for individual senders because neither the distribution
lists nor the option of sorting into folders based on
categories works.


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>I am involved in politics and business and I need to sort
>through hundreds of email messages. Distribution lists
>have proven impractical because it's too hard to add
>dozens upon dozen of addresses. The Category option is
>avialable directly from the message when you click the
>icon next to the address in OL 2003.
>
>However unlike other rules based on individual addresses
>when I use category based rules to sort messages to
>folders it does nothing. It doesn't move the messages or
>anything else. Frankly the other options in OL are
>getting quite tedious and unweildy because it's just not
>practical to have hundreds of email rules all for
>individual volunteers and business partners running as
>these messages are coming. Among other things it's
causing
>my email server to time out at times.
>
>Any suggestions or observations as to why "category" is
>even in the rules wizard if it is a unusuable option in
>terms of sorting? I'm unclear what purpose it serves
>outside of organizing the address book because it doesn't
>seem to serve any purpose in the rules area.
>.
>

Answered in the outlook.general newsgroup. Do NOT multipost!

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"curt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:12e0c01c44362$ef773700$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I am involved in politics and business and I need to sort
> through hundreds of email messages. Distribution lists
> have proven impractical because it's too hard to add
> dozens upon dozen of addresses. The Category option is
> avialable directly from the message when you click the
> icon next to the address in OL 2003.
>
> However unlike other rules based on individual addresses
> when I use category based rules to sort messages to
> folders it does nothing. It doesn't move the messages or
> anything else. Frankly the other options in OL are
> getting quite tedious and unweildy because it's just not
> practical to have hundreds of email rules all for
> individual volunteers and business partners running as
> these messages are coming. Among other things it's causing
> my email server to time out at times.
>
> Any suggestions or observations as to why "category" is
> even in the rules wizard if it is a unusuable option in
> terms of sorting? I'm unclear what purpose it serves
> outside of organizing the address book because it doesn't
> seem to serve any purpose in the rules area.

New user may not be aware of which is the proper goup to
post in and there is no support available.

You may wish to explain yourself better in the future the
post in the other group did not answer the question.


>-----Original Message-----
>Answered in the outlook.general newsgroup. Do NOT
multipost!
>
>--
>Roady [MVP]
>www.howto-outlook.com
>
>Tips of the month:
>-Creating Signatures
>-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3
>
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>"curt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:12e0c01c44362$ef773700$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>>
>> I am involved in politics and business and I need to
sort
>> through hundreds of email messages. Distribution lists
>> have proven impractical because it's too hard to add
>> dozens upon dozen of addresses. The Category option is
>> avialable directly from the message when you click the
>> icon next to the address in OL 2003.
>>
>> However unlike other rules based on individual addresses
>> when I use category based rules to sort messages to
>> folders it does nothing. It doesn't move the messages
or
>> anything else. Frankly the other options in OL are
>> getting quite tedious and unweildy because it's just not
>> practical to have hundreds of email rules all for
>> individual volunteers and business partners running as
>> these messages are coming. Among other things it's
causing
>> my email server to time out at times.
>>
>> Any suggestions or observations as to why "category" is
>> even in the rules wizard if it is a unusuable option in
>> terms of sorting? I'm unclear what purpose it serves
>> outside of organizing the address book because it
doesn't
>> seem to serve any purpose in the rules area.
>
>
>.
>

You can address more than one newsgroup at a time by using a newsreader like
Outlook Express.

And yes it does answer the question; you just may not like the answer. Still
that is irrelevant to multiposting; posting the same message separately in
several newsgroups

--
Roady [MVP]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Creating Signatures
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1312e01c4436a$9d7cc250$(E-Mail Removed)...
> New user may not be aware of which is the proper goup to
> post in and there is no support available.
>
> You may wish to explain yourself better in the future the
> post in the other group did not answer the question.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Answered in the outlook.general newsgroup. Do NOT
> multipost!
>>
>>--
>>Roady [MVP]
>>www.howto-outlook.com
>>
>>Tips of the month:
>>-Creating Signatures
>>-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3
>>
>>-----
>>"curt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
>>news:12e0c01c44362$ef773700$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am involved in politics and business and I need to
> sort
>>> through hundreds of email messages. Distribution lists
>>> have proven impractical because it's too hard to add
>>> dozens upon dozen of addresses. The Category option is
>>> avialable directly from the message when you click the
>>> icon next to the address in OL 2003.
>>>
>>> However unlike other rules based on individual addresses
>>> when I use category based rules to sort messages to
>>> folders it does nothing. It doesn't move the messages
> or
>>> anything else. Frankly the other options in OL are
>>> getting quite tedious and unweildy because it's just not
>>> practical to have hundreds of email rules all for
>>> individual volunteers and business partners running as
>>> these messages are coming. Among other things it's
> causing
>>> my email server to time out at times.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or observations as to why "category" is
>>> even in the rules wizard if it is a unusuable option in
>>> terms of sorting? I'm unclear what purpose it serves
>>> outside of organizing the address book because it
> doesn't
>>> seem to serve any purpose in the rules area.
>>
>>
>>.
>>