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Creating custom rules on Outlook 2003 or 2007

 
 
Fdiez1
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      17th Nov 2009
I accidentally sent an email to a contact on my list who had the same first
name as the contact for whom the original email was intended. This got me
into some serious problems at work and I cannot have this happen again.

I need to create a Rule or an Alert that asks for confirmation for every
email I send out. Basically, once I hit SEND on every email, it should
display a message like: "are you sure you want to send this email to
(E-Mail Removed)?". I just need to make sure every time that the intended
recepient is the correct one.

Please can anyone help me here?
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]
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      17th Nov 2009
You need to use VBA and there should be some samples at outlookcode.com for
this.

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"Fdiez1" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I accidentally sent an email to a contact on my list who had the same
> first
> name as the contact for whom the original email was intended. This got me
> into some serious problems at work and I cannot have this happen again.
>
> I need to create a Rule or an Alert that asks for confirmation for every
> email I send out. Basically, once I hit SEND on every email, it should
> display a message like: "are you sure you want to send this email to
> (E-Mail Removed)?". I just need to make sure every time that the intended
> recepient is the correct one.
>
> Please can anyone help me here?


 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]
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      17th Nov 2009
"Fdiez1" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I accidentally sent an email to a contact on my list who had the same first
> name as the contact for whom the original email was intended. This got me
> into some serious problems at work and I cannot have this happen again.
>
> I need to create a Rule or an Alert that asks for confirmation for every
> email I send out. Basically, once I hit SEND on every email, it should
> display a message like: "are you sure you want to send this email to
> (E-Mail Removed)?". I just need to make sure every time that the intended
> recepient is the correct one.


Why not take two extra seconds and verify the recipient before clicking Send?
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